Theory & Practice

Michelle de Kretser is a genius - one of the best writers working today. She is startlingly, uncannily good at naming and facing what is most difficult and precious about our lives. Theory & Practice is a wonder -- V.V. Ganeshananthan, author of Women's Prize for Fiction and Carol Shields Prize award-winning Brotherless Night
Theory and Practice blazes with intelligence, passion and wit. I devoured it, greedily, in a single glorious sitting -- Sarah Waters
Michelle de Kretser, one of the best writers in the English language, has written her most brilliant book yet. It is, in short, a masterpiece -- Neel Mukherjee
A gem of a book, suffused with the fervent atmosphere of student life, which asks the reader to look again - at literary history, at the idea of the novel, at ourselves -- Francesca Wade, author of Square Haunting
Ferociously intelligent ...This searching novel offers (de Kretser's) characteristic blend of moral clarity, bite, and sumptuous style * Kirkus starred review *
Praise for Michelle de Kretser and Scary Monsters -- :
One of the living masters of the art of fiction -- Max Porter
A truly great writer -- Ali Smith
Magnificent, peerless writing * Guardian *
There are very, very few writers who can match her style, her intelligence, her vision. To read her is to be changed -- Neel Mukherjee
A novel of luminous intelligence and profound depth -- Monica Ali
A dazzling novel by a hugely talented author -- Sarah Waters