“You know what surprises me? I’m surprised that you didn’t fall in love with me the very first time you saw me. Life is full of surprises”
“Exquisitely written, this is no hurtful exercise in family exposure, but a tender reconstruction of a woman’s exemplary life”
Ian Thomson
The Independent
Kate Grenville introduces One Life
“Throughout this wonderful book, Pratt demonstrates acute descriptive powers and a piercing intelligence. It’s in describing her loneliness that she forges the deepest communion with the reader”
Anita Sethi
The Guardian
“As children, my brothers and I dreaded nothing quite as much as a solo drive with my father. His ability to say precisely not one thing to us during an entire journey of several hours was breathtaking”
“Our clinic is full of action, drama, glamour and movie magic: car chases, heroes who survive ridiculous injuries, real-life accidents on set. Go on, collect a ticket at reception. The Movie Doctors will attend to you shortly”
“We love our favourite writers because they are human, and they have made an effort to communicate something important to us. In knowing they are human we understand that they feel just as much as we do”
“To allow money to help us lead a good life and create a good society (which it can do), we need a better understanding of our psychological relationship with the stuff”
“Loneliness, I began to realise, was a populated place: a city in itself. And when one inhabits a city, even a city as rigorously and logically constructed as Manhattan, one starts by getting lost”
‘As quick-witted as a stand-up comic and as serious as the best of them tend to be, Kevin Barry is not only an inspired blend of Flann O’Brien and Anthony Burgess, he is an original.’
Eileen Battersby
The Irish Times
“She’s made me see that most of the writers I love are wild or nuts”
Geoff Dyer
The Guardian
“At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening”
Watch the Trailer for the adaption of The World Made Straight