Critical Praise

"Without sentimentality or bitterness, Robb Forman Dew portrays the feral, stray, sly motives wriggling through the foundations of the American home. . . . Once Dew starts up her story, nothing can stop it."

——The Los Angeles Times

"A writer with a special gift for charting the subtle tidal flow of emotions that make up daily life. . . . Mrs. Dew can convey, with a skill matched by few writers today, the quick, peculiar shifts in feelings that we experience, moment to moment, day to day. . . . In The Time of Her Life, she uses this ability to map out the ambiguities of the Parkses' marriage, and to show the devastating consequences that this unstable alliance has on their daughter."

——The New York Times

"A powerful and disturbing book about a family gone wrong."

——Anne Tyler

"Riveting. . . . An austerely, exquisitely beautiful book. . . . Dew's sophistication is matched by her ability to keep the reader glued to the page."

——Newsday