"In a compelling mix of fact, conjecture and imagination, she recreates one of the most fascinating and strange periods of our colonial history: small isolated communities establishing determined pockets of Europeanness in an alien environment" - Sarah Quigley, New Zealand Listener
"Informality and immediacy are vivid ways to remake a world; and Adcock's style has not dated in the half-century since her debut" - Fiona Sampson, Guardian
"Fleur Adcock is as clear-eyed as always in a collection that ranges widely over lost worlds, family histories...but always maintains the art of seemingly artless observation" - Adam Newey, Guardian