Our Shadows
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PRAISE FOR SORRY
‘The great beauty and depth of Jones’ writing, in this novel as elsewhere, has simultaneous appeal for lovers of intricate, elegant thought, and lovers of verbal style. There’s also a great deal of her signature literary “sampling”, with quotations, allusions and echoes from fiction and poetry vying for space inside her own sentences: Emerson, Dickinson, George Eliot and of course Shakespeare, who haunts these pages like a colossal, chanting ghost.’ Age
‘[Jones is] one of the most interesting and talented novelists at work in Australia today…daring enough to express a complex, original and passionate vision; she writes with a belief in the power of fiction to express meanings unavailable to other forms of art or inquiry.’ Sydney Morning Herald
PRAISE FOR DREAMS OF SPEAKING
‘A captivating, analytical inventory of consciousness-altering technical developments of modernity, from the telephone to the atomic bomb.’ Australian
‘Jones is an extraordinary writer no matter what genre she is working in.’ Australian Book Review
‘Shards of poetry stud Jones’ writing like diamonds.’ Independent
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