“How does a government steal a child and then imprison him? How does it keep that a secret? This book is how.”
“He’s not a copper who happens to be a man. He’s a man who happens to be a copper, and he carries that weight with him everywhere he goes.”
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‘It is exhilarating to witness this method operating in non-fiction too. Stitching and collaging odd fragments and genres together, Laing goes beyond reparation to offer something beautifully integrated, original, compassionate. She does not pose as a professional expert; her very subjectivity, her own suffering, confer her authority because they are so enmeshed with her powerful intelligence’
Michele Roberts
The Independent
“How art helped me see the beauty in loneliness…” An edited extract of The Lonely City
Olivia Laing
The Guardian
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“It is flourishes like these, and countless others, that deliver in Lolito a credible, often exquisite work sure to court at least a little controversy in its depiction of ageless (im)maturity. And though there may be some hot debate on the topic at the moment, Lolito won’t ever become a tiny corner forgotten”
Declan Tan
The Huffington Post
‘Nan Shepherd’s prose is as bracing as water from a mountain stream’
Nicholas Lezard
The Guardian
Nan Shepherd: How one woman saw the Cairngorms in a different light
Steven Brocklehurst
The BBC