You can’t look away because you’ll lose your place, so you just keep going. It has some resemblance to Cormac McCarthy’s work, not least because it doesn’t use quotation marks for dialogue, which makes you feel like you’re floating through the text.
This book is simple and spare and deep all at the same time. The rest of the note lists her family, though Russell is technically an old friend. We learn in bits and pieces about her state of mind and her mental state, perhaps most from the first line of the note she’s carrying: Etta Gloria Kinnick of Deerdale farm. She’s going to see the sea, which Otto saw in the war.
delightful debut novel ( Mail on Sunday)īeautifully written.a powerfully moving account.Etta and Otto and Russell and James has taught me that not enough books take elderly people seriously, that I might have to give magical realism a second chance, and that author Emma Hooper can capture the important moments of relationships and feelings in just a few perfectly structured sentences.Įtta leaves Otto a note and starts walking. ( Elle Magazine)Ī fan of Audrey Niffenegger and Alice Munro, Hooper's sense of playfulness comes across in the book's gentle magical realism' ( The Observer)Ĭharming, sweet.there is a singing simplicity that cuts through to the heart of things. If Wes Anderson's stylised dream worlds make you happy, you need a copy of Etta and Otto and Russell and James. Her debut novel is a magical, big-hearted book about one woman's walk to the sea. Luminous debut.there's a lovely musicality to her prose - care and attention have been spent on the rhythms and melody of her words. To paraphrase Wallace Stevens: A man and a woman are one. Hooper's steady hand creates the perfect setup for the unexpected. This may be the best novel to meaningfully feature windblown dust. Hooper has more or less nailed the 'Amelie' charm with this sweet, disarming story of lasting love.Hooper shows great restraint in balancing the quirky with the universal, blurring the lines between them. Hooper has written an interesting, nuanced and genuinely moving book. a clear and beautifully unadorned prose style.
( The Times)īeautifully written.this deserves to follow in the footsteps of 2014's big debut novels The Miniaturistand Elizabeth Is Missing. Only the thrills offered by this bright new star of literature are metaphysical and unexpected and will leave you thinking on a new level about the connections between men, women and places. as readable and gripping as any thriller. Writing that easily equals that of the Booker-winning Richard Flanagan.
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