The Wonder

Like the movement of the dancers it describes, it feels always, captivatingly, 'meant'

Stephanie Cross, Times Literary Supplement

Evans...writes with eye-catching fluidity, gracefully pirouetting between Notting Hill in the 1990s, and the Caribbean a decade earlier

Trevor Lewis, The Sunday Times

Sparkles with mood, music and the sway of street life

Eithne Farry, Marie Claire

The most dazzling depiction of the world of dance since Ballet Shoes'

Kate Saunders, The Times

Evans interweaves the strands of her three-generation narrative with an exhilarating sense of place and period

Jane Shilling, Daily Telegraph

The Wonder embraces its theme with great heart. It's hard not to be seduced by its talented, difficult hero

Susan Elderkin, Financial Times

Her prose is airbound at times - an exhilarating celebration of rhythm, sway and leap

Daily Mail

Darkens from an absorbing mystery into a touching reckoning... Most striking is the delicacy and power with which Evans depicts emotional disturbance

The Guardian

The story is complex, clever, seamlessly achieved, its many currents blending in harmony, sometimes in conflict, to recreate that sense of randomness and accident that resemble the truth of life in the chancy present...The author's passion burns on the page, along with an almost tactile relish of the act of writing itself

Tom Adair, Scotsman

Evans communicates the joy that comes out of, and the hard work that goes into, dance. She also has a keen eye and a neat way of communicating what she sees.

The Sunday Herald

A serious work of art with sentences like ribbons of silk winding around a skeleton of haunting imagery... Evans was born to write this novel

Independent