"‘An ecstatic, exhilarating helter-skelter ride of a story’—Financial Times.

‘A glorious wide-awake dream of a book’—Observer.

‘[This book] delights because it refuses to stop at a single metamorphosis; despite its compactness, its stories multiply and rebound exuberantly, its echoes calling to one another across the pages’—Times Literary Supplement.

‘Smith’s style encompasses both the lyricism of poetry and the energy of a well-told joke, and she has a keen appreciation for the magic of the everyday kind’—Daily Mail "