Field Study

Rachel Seiffer's short stories excel at depicting the awkwardness and confusions of life...and all are created with the same confidence and skill she showed in her Booker nominated novel The Dark Room

Sian Stott, Daily Telegraph

A magnificent collection: striking, moving, and deeply thought-provoking

Financial Times

Seiffert is a writer of great delicacy and toughness...good story begetting good story after good story

Guardian

Skillfully constructed... It's rare to meet such an unwriterly writer. Especially one who does it so well

Observer

Vivid, just and heartfelt

Daily Telegraph

It is extraordinary to experience these fictions... Not even the achievement of The Dark Room, its maturity and courage, will quite prepare the reader for the subtle art at work throughout these stories

Irish Times

'The Crossing' has all the leanness of Hemingway's short fiction... In Seiffert's hands, the tale becomes a tense parable set at the dangerous intersection of trust, desperation and xenophobia

New York Times Book Review

Captivating... Because Seiffert writes without judgment or sympathy, her flawed characters are all the more compelling

Entertainment Weekly

Whether they are Polish emigrés or hoary World War I veteran's, Seiffert's cast walks the knife's edge of history... It takes an agile mind and dexterous prose to invoke such weighty chunks of history in short fiction

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel