"Ms. McBride's brilliance lies in her arrangements of the glorious garble of language." - The Wall Street Journal

"One of our major novelists . . . the life here radiates through the pages and illuminates ours." - Guardian

"Blazingly daring." - James Wood, The New Yorker

"Nothing else feels so fresh, so radically new. Strange Hotel challenges and expands my sense of what art can do." - Garth Greenwell

"A writer of remarkable power and originality." - Times Literary Supplement

"Eimear McBride is that old-fashioned thing, a genius." - Anne Enright, Guardian

"Her writing has such glorious cadence that it should be read aloud." - The Times

"McBride is a writer with the courage to reinvent the sentence as she pleases, and the virtuosity required to pull it off." - Literary Review

"A writer for whom language is an end not a means, a beginning not an end." Jeanette Winterson

"Readers will be swept along by this entrancing tale of love and its many challenges."- Publishers Weekly

"McBride's incomparable writing style [is] rhythmic, muscular, spare, and altogether undefinable."- Booklist