Strikingly assured... A writer of unexpected sensibilities and uncompromising originality

Cold Water is a thrilling pleasure... I don't think I've read such a good début in years

Vivid and stylish and endlessly, surprisingly filled with perfect, unexpected images... a beautifully written book, utterly original and the most exciting thing to have been published this year... Fantastic

A truly original new voice in fiction. Her bleakly poetic first novel has an atmosphere all of its own: melancholy and profound yet shot through with the urgency of life and love

was hard to put down. Love, idealism, corruption and insanity in the Danish court of the Enlightenment: the world he draws is so complete, it s a very absorbing read.

One of the most unusual and powerful fictional works of modern times.