Press Reviews

• 'A nicely-turned, old-fashioned narrative. In an evocative period piece, the smell of Woodbines and turps curls up from the page' The Independent

• The Times

  Beautiful... Clever, compelling

• Woman and Home

  A compassionate account of the life of an artist, particularly strong in its evocation of post-war London and the countryside of Kent

• '...a painterly sensibility...' Times

• Ms London

  Memorable, poetic... Wonderfully evocative writing - you can almost smell the hop vines as you read

• 'Gee's subtle and sensitive romance evokes the inter-war years, a period that already feels impossibly far away' The Mail on Sunday

• 'So atmospherically written, you feel you're living through a Kentish summer' Northern Echo

• TLS

  Descriptive brilliance... Its emotional tenor remains buoyant and unfaltering from the first page to the last

• Adele Geras

  'A terrific writer' Adele Geras