February

[An] extraordinary, unusually philosophical and human novel... Moore's prose is precise, never laboured and always, and this is the crucial point, convincing

Eileen Battersby, Irish Times

A marvellous book

Winnipeg Free Press

A perfectly pitched novel that captures its characters and their dilemmas.

Woman and Home

A tragedy at sea, a miracle on paper... Moore offers us, elegantly, exultantly, the very consciousness of her characters. In this way, she does more than make us feel for them. She makes us feel what they feel, which is the point of literature and maybe even the point of being human.

Globe and Mail

A very moving study of memory and grief

Adrian Turpin, Financial Times

A well-crafted and shrewd meditation on motherhood and loss.

Emma Hagestadt, Independent

An astonishing writer. She brings to her pages what we are always seeking in fiction and only find in the best of it: a magnetizing gift for revealing how the earth feels, looks, tastes, smells, and an unswerving instinct for what's important in life

Richard Ford

Assured, supple, graceful prose

Boyd Tonkin, Independent

Fans of Anita Shreve and Anne Enright will love this

Viv Groskop, Red Magazine

Heart-warming...domestic fiction at its finest... Moore depicts her characters with compassion and respect... Despite the chill of its title, February exudes the warmth and joyousness of a much sunnier world

Michael Arditti, Daily Mail

Lisa Moore offers a devastating study of loneliness that is moving but never sentimental

Irish Times

Lisa Moore's style is cool, clear, lethally accurate and reminiscent of Raymond Carver

Brandon Robshaw, Independent on Sunday

Lisa Moore's work is passionate, gritty, lucid and beautiful. She has a great gift

Anne Enright

Moore deftly weaves together the present...and the past, evoking memory and grief in pitch-perfect detail

New Yorker

Moore slips [small insights] in so gently you barely feel them, turning a sad story simply told into a minor-key triumph

Guardian

Moore's portrayal of loss is remarkably real

Clare Longrigg, Psychologies

Moore's wonderful fluidity of approach is noticeable right down to the level of her individual sentences. It has been a joy indeed to discover Lisa Moore

Daily Telegraph

Profoundly moving, beautifully written book

Waterstone's Books Quarterly

Skilfully structured...delicate, involving novel

Daily Express

The gentle, meandering pace of this exquisitely expresses the agony of grief and the confusions and complexities of parental love

Easy Living

This mesmerising book is full of tears, and is a graceful meditation on how to survive life's losses

Marie Claire