- Published: 1 September 2010
- ISBN: 9781407015712
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 304
The Descendants
- Published: 1 September 2010
- ISBN: 9781407015712
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 304
Utterly original and absolutely compelling... a fantastic first novel
Geoff Dyer
Hemmings' quirkily assured touch, her grasp of the absurd and the lush Hawaiian setting ensures this novel's balance between heartbreak and hilarity
Marie Claire
Full of dark humour and astute observations, this is a deftly written rumination on the meaning of family and ancestry
Big Issue
A darkly funny debut... a sharp story of emotional and sexual awakening in idyllic Hawaii
Metro
Gripping and funny... A brave and intelligent novel
Sunday Telegraph
Shockingly irreverent and funny while exerting that all-important emotional tug... A well-plotted, unexpectedly twisting saga
Guardian
Kaui Hart Hemmings' assured touch and her fine grasp of the absurd ensures that this novel steers a deliciously scenic route between heartbreak and hilarity
Daily Mail
An assured and subtle writer. The islands rise lush and untamed in the background
Observer
A panoramic tragicomedy about the transience of life...a sensitive, unsentimental vision that is often peppered with comic barbs...treads the fragile thread between heartbreak and humour, announcing Kaui Hart Hemmings as a writer of prodigious gifts
Time Out
The subject matter may be heated but Hemmings avoids schmaltz at every turn. Even Joanie's death-bed scene is flooded with well-judged comedy. An engaging comic debut about a middle-aged man's attempts to navigate a far from scenic route home
Emma Hagestadt, Independent
Terrific debut… a closely observed study of human frailty
Mail on Sunday
An unsentimental tragicomedy, whose somewhat hopeless male protagonist is so believable that it's a surprise to discover his creator is young, female and only on her first novel
Dazed and Confused