With its cool, understated prose and sharp psychological accuracy, this is perfect for a train journey... A reminder of what good writing can achieve in a very few words

A cruel, sophisticated tale making the terrible beautiful without diminishing for one moment the horrors of displacement and war

A genuine artist

This book is a masterpiece

It is quite outstanding, full of beauty, pain and truth... We are lucky to have this book

...a writer of commanding gifts, who seems poised on the threshold of even greater accomplishment

You should buy this book

Dark, funny and disturbing

These 10 inventive stories, set mostly in the Florida Everglades, mix satire and sophisticated whimsy

Karen Russell has produced an engaging debut. Her ability to integrate mythology and the supernatural with the very contemporary...is reminiscent of Angela Carter, but unlike Carter's many imitators, Russell never descends into whimsy... In St Lucy's, humans, ghosts and animals are utterly real; and Russell sells the genuine article, a seemingly effortless writer

These are stories that will sneak into the back of your brain and lurk there long after you are finished reading.

Poignant and wonderful story...concentrates, without effort, all Malouf's themes...it needs to be read