Clinging to the Crags

'I know you and this place. You're like a hefted sheep. If you come in, you'll never leave.' At heart, this memoir is about not leaving home. Except when a father believes in male primogeniture and you're a daughter, the threat of expulsion hangs like the sword of Damocles. Funny, poignant, sharp and sweet, this memoir is what the author has salvaged after the sword dropped. You'll sometimes wish you'd been there, and sometimes be pretty glad you weren't.

Wry, witty, direct, with a continual sense of surprise and a miraculous freshness, this memoir, really a deep-rooted love story about place, family and an old world drawing to an end, beats any fiction.

(on previous work) (On Sedition) Grant at times writes like Jane Austen on crack cocaine ... but entirely, refreshingly modern, entirely herself.



(on previous work) (On Sediton) [Grant] writes with wit, verve and not a little mischief.



(on previous work) (On Sediton) The novel's epigrammatic voice ... is another of its delights, detached in tone but delivering what are often dark ironies with memorable brevity and cleverness.



(on previous work) (On Sedition) A properly subversive and quite unforgettable novel.



(on previous work) (On Sedition) Grant has rambunctious fun ... there is phrase making here of high order, wise and funny arrangements of words that linger in the imagination.



(on previous work) (On Sedition) A subversive and thrilling gothic tale, it will keep you up all night.



(on previous work) (On Sedition) This is an original, winningly imagined tale.



(on previous work) (On Sedition) A sly, witty, deliciously knowing treat.



(on previous work) (On Sedition) Funny, witty, melancholy, rowdy, elegant and kick-ass.



(on previous work) (On Sedition) This is a wonderful read from a born storyteller. weniger anzeigen expand_less