- Published: 20 March 2014
- ISBN: 9781448182343
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 208
Other People's Countries
A Journey into Memory
- Published: 20 March 2014
- ISBN: 9781448182343
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 208
For Patrick McGuinness memories are electrical storms of the mind.
James Carson, Skinny
A rich analysis of home and homelessness.
James Wood, London Review of Books
McGuinness is a marvellous writer... On every page there are breathtakingly gorgeous images, similes, metaphors.
John Banville, Observer
McGuinness has written the great book on Belgium and modern memory, or even Belgium and modern being. He takes his place among those singers and painters of the haunted, the melancholy, the diminished, the caricatural, the humdrum.
Michael Hofmann, Guardian
Lyrical and evocative... This is a very Proustian memoir, whose effect will be to drive the reader into contemplation of their own half-forgotten childhood home.
Josh Glancy, Sunday Times
This book had a powerful effect on me... Sometimes hilarious, sometimes freighted with tragedy.
Gillian Tindall, Literary Review
[McGuinness] is the best advocate for Belgium since Poirot and Tintin... Fascinating, charming, poignant.
Sean O'Brien, Independent
Beautifully paced… Rich and unforced.
Sunday Telegraph
An unusual and striking foray into the past... Powerful universal observations.
Rosie Hopegood, The Skinny
McGuinness’s prose trembles on the edge of poetry, occasionally indeed tipping gently over into it… Spellbinding… Beautifully written.
Wynn Wheldon, Spectator
Lyrical and episodic… A haunting memoir
Good Book Guide