Press Reviews

• The Times

  A novel of exquisite beauty, which evades categorisation

• Lady

  A striking piece of work, with all the intricate, precise beauty of an origami bird

• Guardian

  Gripping... each chapter builds on the one before, unfolding through levels of story to unpack deeper and deeper truths

• Sydney Morning Herald

  Wonderful...a novel of detection, a thriller of the intellect

• Asian Review of Books

  Stunning and hypnotic... You won't read another novel like THE SNOW KIMONO this year, or perhaps for many to come

• Shots Magazine

  This book casts a spell from the start....A highly original book full of small sensations with the bonus of being a joy to read

• Scottish Woman

  Strongly atmospheric, the vivid scenery of Japan resonates through Henshaw's carefully placed words as he creates a psychological thriller

• Australian Book Review

  The novel questions authorship and the slipperiness of memory...[Its] narrative twists are challengingly clever

• Advertiser

  The writing is beautiful: pellucid and wonderfully visual, painting memorable landscape cameos. The reader is compliant, willingly engaged with a story that starts in medias res and branches in unexpected and seemingly unconnected yet complementary directions

• Sydney Review of Books

  Masterful...a tale almost as seamless, and of such a rich fabric, as one of Sachiko's mother's famous kimonos

• Kirkus Reviews

  Henshaw creates a world of psychological complexity and emotional subtlety in a story that moves from Paris to Japan and back again...Henshaw's prose shimmers as his narrative becomes ever more nuanced, complex, and misleading

• Saturday Paper

  Henshaw's prose [is] luminous and crisp, like the snowy countryside of Japan or the barren lanes of Algiers...When I finished The Snow Kimono, I raised my head, vaguely surprised that I was at home, in familiar surrounds, and it was still daylight outside. I turned straight back to page one and began again