Foulds, A: The Quickening Maze

"Impressive ... The key to this success is the concentration of Fould's writing, which manages to seem both simultaneously poised and flowing in its urgency" -- Andrew Motion The Guardian "In The Quickening Maze, Foulds displays in abundance the same kind of precision of observation and empathy of imagination that he gives here to Clare...The world he evokes...is conjured up with remarkable intensity and economy of means. It is impossible to guess where Foulds will travel next in his fiction, but it is safe to assume that the journey with him will be well worth taking" -- Nick Rennison The Sunday Times "The language is simple, sometimes adorned with fleeting and apt images: the sky is 'cloud-breeding', summer clouds are 'curds'" -- Phillip Womack Literary Review "The chief pleasure of the book is its prose: exquisite yet measured, precise, attentive to the world" -- Neel Murkerjee Sunday Telegraph "Fould's exceptional novel is like a lucid dream: earthy and true, but shifting, metamorphic - the word-perfect fruit of a poet's sharp eye and noevlist's limber reach" -- Tom Gatti The Times