Carolyn Slaughter
Praise for Before The Knife
What we need, wrote Franz Kafka, are books that affect us like some grievous misfortune, like the death of one whom we loved more than ourselves. Carolyn Slaughter's Before the Knife is such a book ... Slaughter's b ...
Evening Standard
Hypnotic... deeply moving and disturbing... For those willing to brave the dark without a candle, illumination lies ahead.
The Sunday Times
Painful, tragic family saga... a brave book, beautifully written and full of vivid imagery...I read it at a breathless sitting.
Daily Mail
What we need, wrote Franz Kafka, are books that affect us like some grievous misfortune, like the death of one whom we loved more than ourselves. Carolyn Slaughter's Before the Knife is such a book ... Slaughter's b ...
Evening Standard
Hypnotic... deeply moving and disturbing... For those willing to brave the dark without a candle, illumination lies ahead.
The Sunday Times
Painful, tragic family saga... a brave book, beautifully written and full of vivid imagery...I read it at a breathless sitting.
Daily Mail
What we need, wrote Franz Kafka, are books that affect us like some grievous misfortune, like the death of one whom we loved more than ourselves. Carolyn Slaughter's Before the Knife is such a book ... Slaughter's b ...
Evening Standard
Hypnotic... deeply moving and disturbing... For those willing to brave the dark without a candle, illumination lies ahead.
The Sunday Times
Painful, tragic family saga... a brave book, beautifully written and full of vivid imagery...I read it at a breathless sitting.
Daily Mail