<b>Her literary sensibility fuses the fantastic and the mundane to great effect</b>
Guardian (on The Dollmaker)
Nina Allan weaves <b>a haunting, intricate tale that masterfully blurs genre lines</b>. You'll want to savour every page
CultureFly (2021 picks)
<b>A captivating exploration</b> of community, tragedy and memory. <b>Nina Allan's writing is enthralling.</b>
- Irenosen Okojie,
<b>A compulsive and twisting read</b> . . . Nina Allan has created <b>a surging and artistic narrative</b> that lingers like a cold breath down your neck at the turn of the last page.
- Fiona Murphy, Mummy Pages
<b>a compelling murder mystery filled with superstition, fairy folk and murder </b><b>houses</b>, set on Nina's beloved Isle of Bute ... <b>spellbinding</b>
Scots Magazine
Allan keeps multiple plates spinning without ever losing psychological coherence as a portrait of its self-denying protagonist's engrossingly complicated inner life. <b>Satisfying, sophisticated and very finely done.</b>
Daily Mail
This book<b> cleverly weaves the imagined </b><b>and the real to create a haunting story that relives the past.</b>
Candis
<b>[A] splendid crime narrative of memory, compulsion and the effects of trauma.</b>
Guardian