Through her acute and thoughtful take on issues of truth-telling, McLaughlin reminds us that the novel remains a good mode to investigate our relationship to truth, in part because as a made-up form … Read more
Review by John Walshe, Sunday Business Post – “an artfully written story about seemingly fabulous lives concealing dangerous undercurrents”
McLaughlin scrapes away a veneer of perfect lives in an entertaining debut. Danielle McLaughlin’s debut novel is an artfully written story about seemingly fabulous lives concealing dangerous … Read more
Review by John Self, The Times — a tale of art, adultery and awful children
I like a literary wunderkind as much as the next person, but there’s a lot to be said for being a later starter in the fiction game: look at Penelope Fitzgerald, who was 60 when she published her … Read more
Review by Doug Battersby, Financial Times – “a gripping, taut debut “
Danielle McLaughlin had already picked up a clutch of literary prizes and published a short story in The New Yorker by the time her debut collection, Dinosaurs on Other Planets, was published in 2015. … Read more
Review by Sue Miller, New York Times – “examples of McLaughlin’s gifts on every page”
Danielle McLaughlin is a remarkable writer...one is struck by the sheer gorgeousness of the prose, particularly in descriptions of natural settings; by the quick, seemingly effortless … Read more
Publishers Weekly starred review – This engaging and evocative work will stay with readers.
McLaughlin’s remarkable debut novel...McLaughlin’s descriptions of the art and its appeal have an almost mythic quality...and she has a gift for precise characterization. This engaging and evocative … Read more
