![]() ![]() ![]() Sight is a beautiful debut, and Greengrass is an important new voice in fiction * Jamie Quatro, author of Fire Sermon * There are echoes of WG Sebald and Rachel Cusk in this thoughtful, digressive style that swirls together the historical and the personal, but Greengrass's questing intellect and elegant prose are all her own * Guardian, 50 Books to Read Now * An exceptional debut novel. In many ways Greengrass reminds me of Virginia Woolf - in her intelligence and scope of interest, and in her evocative ability to capture a single consciousness, all while seemingly re-inventing the novel form. It's the lyricism of the prose, and the way the philosophical, essayistic portions of the novel gradually take on a quality of desperation, as if they're the narrator's attempt to codify and control the chaos of the human body. ![]() It isn't just the painful subject matter - how it feels to be both a mother and a daughter, looking in two directions at once, watching one life begin while grieving the end of another. I read Sight with so much ache and admiration. ![]()
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