"Closer to Virginia Woolf's meditative novels than anything else I can think of. . . . This is . . . Mrs. Dalloway prose." - Carolyn See, The Washington Post Book World
"[A] brave imagining of [Alzheimer's].... There are moments of clarity; there is the persistence of desire; there are enduring long-term memories that remain after there is no capacity to recall what was for breakfast or if there was breakfast or what the thing called breakfast is." - The New York Times
"Harvey infuses the text with compassion. [ The Wilderness ] conveys the importance of dignity and respect for those we love, no matter what their affliction." - Las Vegas Review-Journal
"A stunning composition of human fragility and intensity." - The Guardian (London)
" The Wilderness is Samantha Harvey's first novel, but it feels like a mature work, as well crafted and as cryptic . . . as an ancient boat found preserved in the peat of the northern-England moors where the book is mostly set." - Bookforum
"A really exciting debut is as rare as it ever was. Samantha Harvey's first novel is an extraordinary dramatization of a mind in the process of disintegration. . . . Brilliant." - The Times (London)
"Very moving. . . . Touches a resounding chord of melancholy. . . . [Harvey] makes you realize that memory can never quite be trusted." - The Scotsman
"A haunting, intelligent novel, crowded with powerful characters, told in a language that is never ordinary, but always clear and elegant." - Tessa Hadley, author of The Master Bedroom and Sunstroke and Other Stories
"Raises intriguing queries about the nature of memory - why we remember what we do, and why we forget." - Ottawa Citizen
"A brave and intelligent crafting of narrative . . . . A mesmerizing work of patient compassion, bearing Jake deep into the vortex." - The Independent (London)
