On the recordV
Praise
What reviewers have said, at length and without cutting the qualifications out.
The Observer⁂Times Literary Supplement⁂The Guardian⁂Granta⁂The New Yorker⁂Paris Review⁂The Scotsman⁂The Observer⁂Times Literary Supplement⁂The Guardian⁂Granta⁂The New Yorker⁂Paris Review⁂The Scotsman⁂
“A writer who understands that landscape is not scenery but evidence. The Weathering is the finest English novel about ground I have ever read, and the last forty pages are as good as anything published this decade.”
“Arden writes water better than anyone alive. You finish Nine Days of Rain damp.”
“A small, exact, devastating book. I have given away four copies and bought five.”
“There is no sentimentality in her at all, which is why she can be trusted with grief.”
“Every one of these eleven stories knows exactly when to stop. Almost nobody knows when to stop.”
“A debut of extraordinary patience. She was thirty-one and already unhurried.”
“The rare novelist whose second book made you reread the first one differently.”