Macdonald is excellent at conversation - the phonecalls between Mary Rose and her mother are superb in their accuracy
Independent on Sunday
MacDonald is a stunningly good writer . . . The Way the Crow Flies . . . secures for MacDonald a place, forever, in Canadian literature.
Calgary Herald
One of the finest novels I've ... Read moreread in a long, long time.
The Washington Post on The Way The Crow Flies
[MacDonald's] prose...is always right and true, clean and penetrating.
Winnipeg Free Press on The Way The Crow Flies
Remarkable...an engrossing, disturbing and layered tale.
Chicago Tribune on The Way the Crow Flies
Suspense builds; surely, horror awaits. . . . Macdonald's book remains spellbinding throughout. It is impossible to forget.
Paul Gessell, Quill & Quire
Many of us will see ourselves in the profound discomfort MacDonald has conjured... the book is an absolute triumph of terrifying authenticity.
National Post
. . . an intricate, gripping novel that is also a master class in turning the personal into the universal through art.
Brian Bethune, Maclean's Canada
Ms. MacDonald strikes just the right tone as she exposes the brutal undercurrents of domestic life.
New York Times
. . . a novel impossible to put down once begun. . . . the novel is superb, a fine blending of fact and fiction, of remembered incident and forgotten history, a wonderfully written treatise on the power of the past to impinge on the present.
Nancy Schiefer, The London Free Press, Canada
A lively, moving, and often funny story that has the potential to help usher in a new era of honest literary depictions of families in all their permutations.
The Walrus
She has again delivered a masterpiece.
Michelle Dean, The Globe and Mail
...explores the question of parental abuse and its origins with uncommon courage.
Now magazine, Canada
Ann-Marie MacDonald captures the dark hilarity of parenthood like nobody else. I gulped down Adult Onset in a single day.
Emma Donoghue, author of Room
Big, troubling and brave.
The New York Times
A complex, troubling novel that cuts with surgical precision into the sinew and muscle of family life.
Sarah Waters, author of The Paying Guests
Definitely recommended
Daily Mail
Sensitive and unmistakeably heartfelt
Sunday Times
Beautifully rendered... frank and acidly funny... It's a large-hearted, resonant novel, filled with an interiority that opens out - a generous work.
Guardian
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