Reviews for GIRL WITH DOVE:
“The word "mesmerising" is frequently applied to memoirs, but seldom as deservedly as in the case of Girl With Dove” - Financial Times
“A brilliant evocation of the porousness for children between reality and fiction ...The book is beautifully written ... just let its poetic rhythms lap over you ... it left me longing for more of Bayley's recollections from a place of relative tranquility“ - Spectator
“Bayley's family are compelling, certainly, but it's the formidable and moving lines of much-loved prose, sketched long ago in the classics, that provide much of Girl With Dove's horsepower” - Irish Times
“An astonishing tale, astonishingly written in clear, precise prose ... Bayley is exceptionally good at bringing us into the child's world ... there's a raw, visceral power to the writing, which turns the abstract physical on almost every page ... This bold, arresting memoir is about the quest for a different kind of truth” - Sunday Times
