Personal Velocity

Miller is a brilliantly observant writer with a sharp eye . . . In her hands, every emotion and state of mind are fully imagined and accurately realised. * * Daily Mail * *
She is good with words: economical, deft with detail . . . Miller writes with a welcome sensitivity . . . compelling. * * Independent * *
Emotionally and intellectually, every tale in this debut volume is a quick fix, a burst of clarity delivered at breakneck speed: perfect stuff for a visually orientated, easily distracted generation ... This is an excellent book. * * Guardian * *
Miller really knows momentum. Each story launches a fully rounded character into play like a pinball sprung into action. * * Daily Telegraph * *
A talented and highly visual writer. * * New York Times Book Review * *
Just when you begin to think . . . that women's literary material is limited . . . something like Personal Velocity happens to remind us that good material is everywhere. [Miller is] a wonderful writer. -- Carolyn See * * Washington Post * *
Rebecca Miller's debut story collection is a series of eye-opening portraits of women who are either struggling to attain self-knowledge or who are hopelessly plagued by it. . . . Miller's prose is alarmingly unvarnished, as if she's hovering above . . . questions of identity and desire with transcendent impartiality. . . . Miller might pretend to be detached and objective as she probes these quandaries, but she's always humane, always honest, and always entertaining. -- Mark Rozzo * * Los Angeles Times Book Review * *
Whether Miller is writing about sophisticated New Yorkers or (in Delia) a wife who, with her three bewidlered children flees from a violent husband, her stories conjure up lives and worlds that linger in the memory. * * Sunday Times * *