Supporting Cast

An emotionally sure-handed novel exploring harrowing terrain with deft sensitivity

Sunday Times on The Trick to Time

Devastatingly emotional. De Waal's storytelling gives us the poetry and sorrow of life itself

Financial Times on The Trick to Time

Tender and heart-breaking

Rachel Joyce on My Name is Leon

The unforgettable story of a boy struggling to belong. Heartbreaking and uplifting - just read it

Daily Mail on My Name is Leon

It's so good. Full of Kit's trademark humanity. I can feel my heart grow with every word

Cathy Rentzenbrink

Stunning. What an experience, the brightest and most beautiful break in the clouds. Kit is in utter command of language and story here, and wields them like no other writer

Donal Ryan

Kit has the most marvellous gift of getting to the marrow of her characters and this collection of vignettes from the lives of her characters, peripheral, and not so peripheral, is a magnificent study of humanity in all its various sorrows. Her writing is exquisite, not a word is wasted and the stories are beautiful in their simplicity and truth

Liz Nugent

Written with such beauty

Prima

Stories of everyday lives that will resonate and move you utterly

Stylist

Kit de Waal has written? a book that is absolutely right for the summer of 2020 . . . This is a book you could read on a journey, on a beach, in a single sitting between dinner and bedtime. And afterwards feel more connected to the world... It's a treat for her many existing fans - but new readers can very much start here

Financial Times

Superb. [The characters] blaze into richly imagined lives full of loss, love, abandonment and heartfelt hope

Daily Mail