'Audacious... The need to create, Bandyopadhyay suggests, is something like a permanent wound
inextricable, smarting with pain, and only denied for so long.'
Darren Huang, Words Without Borders 'A long, raw, brutal, sometimes heartbreaking tug-of-war between motherhood and creativity... Abandon is a bold, important and formidable novel about the demands of life and the responsibilities ... Read morewe have, both to others and to ourselves.'
Lucy Scholes, The National 'With Room-like insight into motherhood, Abandon is a compelling novel about the perpetual conflict between art and life.'
Rabeea Saleem, Book Riot 'A novel that continues to explore many of the same conflicts that surround our notions of womanhood, motherhood and the accessibility of participation in the arts... Tragic and beguiling'
Callum McAllister, Cardiff Review 'A neat depiction of the ways in which our contradictory desires pull us in directions so different as to be irreconcilable.'
The Skinny 'Breathtaking and urgent; exploring women's desire and struggle for creative, economic, and sexual independent in Bandyopadhyay's characteristically sensual and engrossing prose, Abandon is an absolute joy.'
Megan Bradbury, author of Everyone is Watching 'In this beautiful novel, which subtly examines the rift that can open up inside us, compassion and cruelty are so close that at times they become indistinguishable. Prepare to be wrenched apart.'
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of Harmless Like You Show Less