And My See-Through Heart (Paperback)

There are echoes of Kurt Vonnegut and Milan Kundera in Ovalde's ability to take the most stressful events - death, depression and anxiety - and bring an obliquely discursive perspective to bear. The result is luminously engaging and delicately, comically uplifting - Independent

Véronique Ovaldé constructs a fictional universe in which the imagination soars ... There are writers who are carried away, and those, like Véronique Ovaldé, who carry you away - Marie Claire

Reminiscent of the work of near contemporary, Marie Darrieussecq, Ovaldé's fiction is ineffably French - her romantically inclined characters not quite of this world. An engaging story of bereavement and loss, playfully translated by Adriana Hunter - Emma Hagestadt, Independent on Sunday

Ovaldé delicately portrays a man shrouded in grief. Though told in the third person, the perspective is that of an unreliable narrator. The heart remains opaque and while the anticipated denouement does materialise, it only provides a partial explanation. - Isobel Montgomery, Guardian

This is an imaginative tale of love lost, gained and obsessed over. Lancelot Rubinstein is the unlikely hero who embarks on an epic quest to find the reason behind his wife's mysterious and sudden death, which sets him on a course of earnest discovery and self-revelation. Sometimes funny, sometimes heartfelt, but bound to stir your curiosity at every turn. - Harper’s Bazaar