Cheri (Hardback)

Cheri is richly packed. The details are laid before the reader with a simplicity that feels like grace. Beard's vocabulary is luminous ... Beard combines the lapidary chill of Joan Didion with the sense of a proper, lived humanity that you get from a writer like Grace Paley or Sigrid Nunez. She is good company. She connects. You should read her and not look away - Anne Enright, Guardian

Beard's writing is majestic and ultimately offers some hope, because the book is essentially less about death and more about what it is to be alive ... In the hands of a maestro, less can be so much more - Independent

Beard's wry voice and her clear-eyed compassion make her the best sort of company - Jonathan Franzen, Guardian

Cheri is a masterpiece - John Self, The Times

As controlled and convincing as art - Times Literary Supplement

Profoundly sad, poignant, and filled with the flabbergasting abundance of life ... an extraordinary achievement - Mary Gaitskill

Extraordinary and powerful - Mia Levitin, Irish Times

A gem of a book ... Beard communicates, quietly and almost plainly, a breathless desperation for life and all its terrible beauty - Lizzy Stewart, Guardian

I was shocked by my emotional response to it. It's beautiful & sad & dignified - Amy Key, author of Arrangements in Blue

Beard honours the beautiful, the sacred, and the comic in life, and for life's inescapable cruelites and woes she offers the wisdom of a sage - Sigrid Nuñez

Jo Ann Beard is a formidable talent. Her writing is darkly moving, full of audacious narrative surprises, and, at times, unexpectedly - almost unbearably - suspenseful - Geoff Dyer

A rare talent, and a magnificent writer ... She is extraordinary - Francesca Segal, author of Mother Ship

Taut and troubling ... rendered with exquisite restraint and precision ... as powerful as the close of The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Literary Review