Love Me Tender

She has a wonderful way of teasing out the comedy of people struggling to deal with what the poet Frances Cornford called 'the long littleness of life'

Kate Saunders, The Times

Jane Feaver has proved an expert at creating a sense of place ... tender, imaginative prose

Vicky Allen, Sunday Herald

These lives are captured in surprising, sometimes shocking ways. The timelessness of Jane Feaver's fiction conceals a quality of enchanting newness. This is a unique voice

Philip Hensher, Daily Telegraph

The neatness and power of Feaver's writing is a spartan pleasure: when shafts of poetical insight or tenderness break through its restraint they are genuinely luminous and moving

Guardian

Confirms her considerable talents

The Independent

Feaver's Spartan sentences are taut and neat and utterly undermine any romantic notions of love and sex. In her descriptions of the town and its weather, however, Feaver allows a quietly poetic and pastoral voice to peek through,; a thoughtful pause in the otherwise dark emotional interiors of the characters in these stories.

Emily Firetog, Irish Times