Critical Praise

"Seductive and absorbing... Gibbon presents the grim grace of working-class life and the erotic discoveries of youth with facile clarity."

——Kristianna Bertelsen, Express Books (San Francisco)

"Slangy yet lyrical.... Gibbon's touching, simplistic honesty gives the novel its true strength."

——Amber Cowan, The Times (London)

"Exhilarating.... It's rare to find an author who can write explicitly about sex without being either sentimental or crude. But from the first startling sentences, it's clear that Maureen Gibbon is one of those writers.... Her language is clean and sharp, and cuts like a knife through the usual."

——Independent Weekly (Durham, NC)