The Wonder

Reviews / Votes

The most dazzling depiction of the world of dance since Ballet Shoes' -- Kate Saunders * The Times * Her prose is airbound at times - an exhilarating celebration of rhythm, sway and leap * Daily Mail * Darkens from an absorbing mystery into a touching reckoning... Most striking is the delicacy and power with which Evans depicts emotional disturbance * The Guardian * The story is complex, clever, seamlessly achieved, its many currents blending in harmony, sometimes in conflict, to recreate that sense of randomness and accident that resemble the truth of life in the chancy present...The author's passion burns on the page, along with an almost tactile relish of the act of writing itself -- Tom Adair * Scotsman * A serious work of art with sentences like ribbons of silk winding around a skeleton of haunting imagery... Evans was born to write this novel * Independent * The Wonder embraces its theme with great heart. It's hard not to be seduced by its talented, difficult hero -- Susan Elderkin * Financial Times * Evans interweaves the strands of her three-generation narrative with an exhilarating sense of place and period -- Jane Shilling * Daily Telegraph * Sparkles with mood, music and the sway of street life -- Eithne Farry * Marie Claire * Like the movement of the dancers it describes, it feels always, captivatingly, 'meant' -- Stephanie Cross * Times Literary Supplement * Evans...writes with eye-catching fluidity, gracefully pirouetting between Notting Hill in the 1990s, and the Caribbean a decade earlier -- Trevor Lewis * The Sunday Times *