The Leveret

Anna Goldreich writes with searing clarity and immense heart. This is a haunting novel full of rich imagery, distinct voice and so much imagination. Anna Goldreich is clearly a writer to keep an eye on

Jan Carson, author of 'The Raptures'

The Leveret is a mesmerising and haunting debut from a rare and singular talent. Anna Goldreich has written something so deeply stirring, heartbreaking and filled with ache, it transcends words. Turning the last pages, I was completely speechless. Anna's is a once in a generation talent

Lucy Rose, author of 'The Lamb'

Hugely intense and beautifully unsettling - a searing, intimate novel about grief’s wildness — I couldn’t look away

Orla Mackey, author of 'Mouthing'

A beautiful but very sad book about grief, love and healing

Róisín Lanigan, author of 'I Want To Go Home But I'm Already There', Glamour

A tender exploration of grief and the alienation felt after loss, The Leveret is a strikingly mature debut from Anna Goldreich. Clare and Phoebe's relationship to each other, the before and after of tragedy, is depicted with such sensitivity as is their relationship with Isla, leading to an incredibly touching, cathartic final scene

Joshua Jones, author of 'Local Fires'

From the Norwich-based writer Anna Goldreich, The Leveret revolves around Clare and Phoebe, who believe that moving to the countryside will solve their marital woes and give their relationship a new lease of life, especially after the miscarriage of the daughter they were expecting . . . Tissues at the ready

Sunday Times Style

A brilliantly written, brave debut. The Leveret is deeply affecting about the ferocity of care, and it bounds with all the pain and beauty that comes with that

Cynan Jones, author of 'The Dig'

Addictive, poignant, and unlike anything I’ve read before, The Leveret is such an important novel. With its beautiful, overflowing depiction of loss and queer relationships, it was an honour to witness Clare and Phoebe’s love, the way they adapt to each other’s needs, attempting to connect through their loss. I’m so pleased it exists

Grace Murray, author of 'Blank Canvas'

A story that enfolds you with messy, beautiful, painful love

Sophie Ward, author of 'Love and Other Thought Experiments'

Goldreich's incantatory flow of grief-choked prose marks out The Leveret as a striking rural sister piece to Charlie Porter’s Nova Scotia House, and it packs a similar heart-draining punch

Kate Worsley, author of 'Foxash'

The Leveret is a poetic testimony of queer care while also bearing witness to the devastation wreaked by loss. I found Goldreich’s prose just staggering – this is the kind of visceral, unflinching language that pulls the body close and asks us to feel every jagged contour of its pain. I was so moved by Clare and Phoebe’s relationship as they scrabble among the pieces of their shared life for a way back to one another. Goldreich brings these human rituals of grieving into contact with the harsh ambivalence of nature to craft a story that feels both mythic and intimate – something truly primal is at work in these pages

Rowe Irvin, author of 'Life Cycle of a Moth'

A tangled story of love and loss, confronting as it is hopeful. Anna Goldreich is one to watch

Amy Twigg, author of 'Spoilt Creatures'

A triumphant first novel . . . This bold debut about a woman finding healing after a late miscarriage is written with utter conviction . . . highly accomplished, calmly devastating and eerily moving

Guardian

A vivid and mesmerisingly powerful debut . . . Goldreich’s spare, beautiful prose captures the essence of both women’s struggle to grapple not only with the pain of loss but the ever-yawning rift it has opened between them

Marie Claire

Bruisingly poignant and quietly uneasy, this is a story of loss and isolation that will stay with you long after reading

Cold Magazine

A truly heartbreaking account of grief, love, depression and resilience

Stylist

The best-written recent release

Auraist

Gorgeously tender with beautiful and poetic prose . . . An intense and haunting read but one that felt deeply necessary

The Debut Digest

Goldreich's novel tracks a careful line through ideas of delusion, love and the nastily isolating nature of baby loss with precise and piercing lyricism

Daily Mail

Nothing about The Leveret is supernatural, yet its poetic intensity gives it the haunting quality of a folk-horror tale, laden with themes of loss and love. It’s a tremendously affecting debut novel, raw and painful and not for the faint of heart

Lost Art

A haunting and heartbreaking exploration of baby loss within a queer relationship, delicately exploring how a couple might react differently following the loss of a child depening on who carried the baby

Stylist, 'Best Debuts 2026'

A compelling read . . . Where Anna Goldreich scores is in her visceral treatment of grief, which really hits home. And the way she draws the relationship between Clare and Phoebe is imbued with a real truth

Crack Magazine