Falling Out of Time

Grossman raises questions about the nature of grief and mourning and demonstrates, once again, his rare gift of storytelling, a realm where loss is not merely an absence but a life force of its own.

Jewish Chronicle

A harrowing testimony to grief… It’s a measure of Grossman’s clarity of thought and his theatrical timing that one reaches its end and feels, in some small way, glad to have been in his characters’ company however grim the road they travel.

Rosemary Goring, Glasgow Sunday Herald

A book that needed to be written.

Kate Kellaway, Observer

On the page the book resembles a play, or a prose poem, possessing at times the qualities of a religious or mystical text... Falling Out of Time is short, and clearly a deeply personal book, but its importance and impact ought not to be underestimated.

Ian Sansom, Guardian

At once more universal and more personal than anything he has written before.

Josh Glancy, Sunday Times

Slim in dimension but as solid as sculpted rock... Around Grossman’s region, countless parents have had to endure the premature death of children and so enter this "land of exile". Although it grows from a private, incomparable ordeal, this noble fable speaks for all of them.

Boyd Tonkin, Independent

In this book of sorrows, Grossman captures every shade of grief and guilt. There is very little good writing about bereavement; Falling out of Time is as true and as powerful as CS Lewis's great A Grief Observed.

Kate Saunders, The Times

Strange and passionate... What grips is the emotional suspense that Grossman articulates: that remembering and forgetting can be as bad as each other, that finding a way to understand what happened risks cheapening it.

Simon Willis, Intelligent Life

The greatest Israeli writer of his generation.

Lucy Daniel, Telegraph

Fusing prose and verse in the form of a drama, it's a searing glimpse of the most intimate grief but also hints at the possibility of redemption through the act of writing.

Metro

A significant new departure in literature.

Stoddard Martin, Jewish Chronicle

Heart-wrenching, moving and worth numerous reads.

Vicki Bartram, UK Press Syndication

A small miracle of literary complexity and invention, which grows on re-reading.

Terry Philpot, Tablet

Falling Out of Time is a novel that will strike a chord with anyone who has suffered a loss and struggled to move beyond it

Brendan Wright, Nudge

A strange, harrowing, deeply soulful and, in moments, quite unexpectedly beautiful book

Billy O’Callaghan, Irish Examiner