Seven Tales of Sex and Death

Duncker is a mistress of suspense ... A febrile, fascinating, disquieting read. It asserts itself for what it is: serious stuff, to be read in one gulp and then mulled over for days -- Maggie O’Farrell
A wonderfully engaging and rewarding collection, shot through with wit and perversity -- Michael Arditti * Independent *
Dark, subversive … You will be left reeling * Observer *
This collection of stories confirms Patricia Duncker as one of Britain’s leading fiction writers . . . She explores areas of our psyches that we all recognise but mostly choose to ignore. She should be required reading * Financial Times *
Confident and bewitching … Duncker is forging her own brand of fiction, a sort of gender-bending, intellectually exuberant English-French hybrid -- Joanna Briscoe * Guardian *
Patricia Duncker writes beautifully with a flamboyant immediacy * Sunday Telegraph *
Dark and salacious … They capture brilliantly the moment in everyday situations where our minds cease to occupy reality and shift into the fantasy projections of our fervently active imaginations * The Times *