Mary George of Allnorthover

‘In her considerably accomplished debut novel, the poet Lavinia Greenlaw demonstrates that she has already mastered one of the novelist’s most insidious besetting problems; she is able to resist, and thereby to subvert, the temptations of cliché.’

Alex Clark, The Guardian
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‘Lavinia Greenlaw’s composed and sensuous first novel’

Susanna Rustin, The Financial Times
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Normally, the news that a distinguished poet has settled down to produce a novel sets off a kind of klaxon alarm in the mind of the critic. Happily, Lavinia Greenlaw’s début is light on the purple patch, and apart from a few highly effective flourishes in which the heroine balances on a lofted bough across the surface of a reservoir (the novel’s key symbolic moment), the result is agreeably prosaic.

Independent
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Published overseas in:

Holland
May 2001
by De Bezige Bij as
Mary George van Allnorthover

Germany
Sept 2001
by DuMont as
Die Vision von Mary George

US
July 2001
by Houghton Mifflin