A visual memoir with beautifully drawn illustrations by Joe Sumner.

Its minute observations and most unsettling moments stayed with me, like a shark tooth kept in a pocket, a souvenir of someone else’s life.

It is remarkable how an autobiographical – I stress this – book can enact a movement away from the self and become the repository of so much humility.

Wyld tells the story of her obsession and fascination with the shark, and charts the undercurrents, tensions and joys of family life. Model-maker Joe Sumner’s illustrations, full of tension and grace, are a haunting accompaniment.

Sumner’s wondrous art is a perfect visual correlative to Wyld’s spare lyricism.

A lovely, complex, elegiac book.

The perfect marriage of sparse but beautiful prose with elegant and effective imagery.

Wyld … uses her signature oblique style to excellent effect in conjuring up a child’s world of everyday nightmares.

If you have never read a graphic novel before, this powerful and moving example is the perfect place to start.

Poignant and rather perfect.

Sumner’s illustrations are an evocative accompaniment to this melancholy, funny, moving tale.

Lyrically written, […] Sumner’s artwork complements Wyld’s restrained style beautifully.

Here’s hoping Father Christmas is an Observer reader and buys it for me.

A testament to the mind of a child and how it survives the world around it and a remarkable comic book in tapping into that transformative experience.

Communicates elaborate ideas in deceptively simple ways

Wonderful graphic novel.

The storyline is exciting and well thought out to give a wide overview of the suffrage movement. I was very pleasantly surprised.

A seamless blend of historical fact and fiction ... The illustrations are full of energy and expression.