Perhaps Christina Stead's latest book should not be reviewed

Time magazine reviews Dark Places of the Heart, the title given to Cotters' England by its U.S. publishers.

The reviewer writes:

Perhaps Christina Stead's latest book should not be reviewed, but exorcised.

Creating moments like these requires pages and pages of preparation

The Happy Antipodean blog thinks about Cotters' England.

The blogger writes:

Creating moments like these requires pages and pages of preparation. Stead, by this time an experienced novelist, knew exactly the effects she wanted and she does it beautifully.

It presents a multilayered picture of life

The Verity's Virago Venture blog reviews Cotters' England.

The blogger writes:

The mix of characters reveals a mixture of hope and aspiration along with the opposite; it presents a multilayered picture of life but not one that really held my attention.

A crisp opening

The Pykk blog glances at the first lines of Cotters' England.

The blogger writes:

A crisp opening, so careful to label and explain everything that it seems mocking, or ridiculously jaunty