- Published: 19 March 2018
- ISBN: 9780143790914
- Imprint: Penguin
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 704
- RRP: $22.99
Dark Palace
- Published: 19 March 2018
- ISBN: 9780143790914
- Imprint: Penguin
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 704
- RRP: $22.99
A wonderful novel...Good writing, we may say, is the skill of making others perform well as readers. Read Grand Days then - you won't have performed better as a reader since you read Middlemarch.
Howard Jacobsen, Sunday Times
An irreducibly rich, sustained and complex work of the imagination.
The Independent
Funny, scary and extremely sexy...Truly a grand book.
UK Vogue
Moorhouse has for a long time been one of the most original and professional of Australian writers in the world of literature and English. Grand Days is the summit of this achievement.
Geoffrey Dutton, Australian Book Review
Edith Campbell Berry is one of the most winning women in contemporary fiction…The book would make an extraordinarily glamorous movie, and most actresses would brawl to play sexy, smart, plucky Edith.
Publishers Weekly
a big, luminous, affectionate and beautifully managed novel. It shows Frank Moorhouse passing from days of wine and rage to his own grand days.
Independent on Sunday
a fine achievement
Andrew Riemer, The Sydney Morning Herald
Moorhouse has written a novel of amplitude and resonance…It is his crowning achievement
Peter Pierce, The Bulletin
a considerable intellectual and artistic achievement
The Australian
With Dark Palace, Moorhouse transcends his nationality, with a literary achievement that flags a writer of the world.
Time Magazine
He makes you laugh, and think. Comparisons with Milan Kundera are not out of place, although Mr Moorhouse’s female characters are much more credible.
Angela Carter, The New York Times
A rich and enriching novel, out of its time but vital to it, whose writing is an inspiration.
The Guardian