FAMILIAR - Tapa blanda

So breakneck and harrowing, so grab-you-by-the-lapels astonishing, that you may not notice until nearly the end how many questions about your own life it makes you ask (Elizabeth McCracken)

J. Robert Lennon's beautifully written new novel bristles with menace and suspense - a terrific and disturbing read (Daily Mail)

I loved J Robert Lennon's rather spooky novel Familiar ... it's a story Hitchcock might have made (Books of the Year 2013 Evening Standard)

Irresistible ... a meditation on family and identity likely to stir brain and heart alike (Observer)

Familiar is a terrific novel: psychologically subtle and philosophically supple. It will leave you with a heightened awareness of the strange cracks and wormholes on the peripheries of life (Daily Telegraph)

There won't be a better English-language novel published this year ... this is a brilliant, bruising novel about how we make our way in the world. Everyone should read it (Civilian Magazine)

A literary puzzle, a marvelous trick of the mind...as tightly wound as a great Alfred Hitchcock movie. (LA Times)

Tight in focus as well as in construction...an otherworldly narrative (Leo Robson Evening Standard)

Dazzling (Justine Jordan Guardian)

This highly convincing nightmare reads like a thriller; Lennon is painfully truthful about grief and parenthood (Kate Saunders Times)