Springfield Road

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Honest, grippingly readable, funny and uplifting -- MAGGIE GEE, OBE [Salena's] writing is urgent and detailed, colourful and clamorous. Like all love stories, her memoir is intense, intimate -- IAIN FINLAYSON * * The Times * * Throughout, Godden writes about a past that is at once deeply personal yet also belongs to the everyman figure; her descriptions of childhood are simultaneously timeless and yet rooted in a particular period of British history -- DEBJANI BISWAS-HAWKES * * The Literateur * * A lyrical and witty memoir painting a portrait of the artist as a young girl . . Springfield Road's prose wavers effortlessly throughout, from tender poignancy to raw, gritty realism and this lovely book serves to remind us that however much the world has changed in the last forty years, in many ways it is still exactly the same -- LEE BULLMAN * * Loud and Quiet Magazine * * Salena Godden is an absolute master of, knowing your assumptions, playing to them, and then flipping them completely -- LAURA TAYLOR * * Write Out Loud * * Salena Godden is a powerhouse -- NICOLE CAPO * * Sabotage Reviews * * Praise for Mrs Death Misses Death: A fantastically imaginative story about life, death and everything in between - a potent reminder that life is short and every second should be cherished -- IDRIS ELBA A modern-day Pilgrim's Progress leavened with caustic wit . . . This is not light-hearted stuff, yet Godden has produced a miraculously light-hearted novel . . . an elegant, occasionally uproarious, danse macabre * * Guardian * * Exquisite. A daring, poetic offering that establishes Godden as one of our most exciting voices. I loved it -- IRENOSEN OKOJIE A rhythmic and powerful poetic meditation on death, life and love and the hidden mysteries of the universe; both playful and sombre, hilarious and human -- NIKESH SHUKLA