Conjures a tale that recalls vintage Michael Ondaatje ... delicate and sweeping
Daily Mail
This is fiction of the most graceful kind ... a quiet storm of imagery and emotions
Christian House
Independent on Sunday
I loved Painter of Silence. It was like entering a dream world that became more and more real, until I actually needed to get back to it. Her writing is so gentle and beautiful and takes you so confidently on a journey. I let myself be carried away. Heaven
Esther Freud
Painter of Silence insists on being recommended because of its unassertive originality, its sense of history, its knowledge of the unsaid and the unsayable, and - not least - its delightfully surprising ending
Paul Bailey
Independent
Harding writes with exquisite restraint ... Her deceptively simple prose gives a startling beauty to the ordinary, and evokes great depth of suffering
Guardian
Harding's writing has a careful, lilting fluency which nourishes a slow-burning momentum ... an adroit examination of our need for a home, and the terrible consequences of its loss
Philip Womack
Daily Telegraph
A must-read ... Hauntingly beautiful, for fans of The English Patient
Viv Groskop
Red