‘A lyrical, complex celebration of Cecil Sharp’ The Times
‘Every actor shines in this beautifully brooding tale of song and sisterhood,’ The Guardian
‘A beautiful, beguiling play that captures the transcendent and transformative power of music.‘ Financial Times
‘Breathtaking writing, flawless staging. Folk deserves to be around for a very long time.’ WhatsOnStage
‘Edgily enchanting and beautifully played by all, this is an exquisite gem’ Daily Express
‘A beautiful, beguiling play that captures the transcendent and transformative power of music.‘ Financial Times
‘Every actor shines in this beautifully brooding tale of song and sisterhood,’ The Guardian
– Evening Standard
‘breathtaking in its simplicity and depth of feeling’
– Daily Telegraph
– Independent
‘The narrative is so direct, so guileless, that the reader feels completely drawn in, as homesick as Mary herself for the known world of her farmhouse. The story is shocking and haunting, turning suddenly and violenty dark.’
– Spectator
‘A small tour de force – a wonderfully convincing voice, and a devastating story told with great skill and economy’
– Penelope Lively
‘Charming, Brontë-esque, compelling, special and hard to forget.’
– Marian Keyes
‘Leyshon is a master of domestic suspense . . . Slender but compelling, the charm is to be found as much in its spare, evocative style as in the moving candour of its narrator’
– Observer
– Independent
‘The reader feels completely drawn in… The story is shocking and haunting, turning suddenly and violenty dark.’
– Spectator
‘A small tour de force – a wonderfully convincing voice, and a devastating story told with great skill and economy’
– Penelope Lively
‘Charming, Brontë-esque, compelling, special and hard to forget.’
– Marian Keyes
The Colour of Milk
– Vanity Fair
“Taut, moving… Mary could have stepped out of the pages of a Thomas Hardy novel”
– SeattleTimes
“Resonant, heartbreaking… The Colour of Milk is a truly wonderful read – a slender, beautiful novel with as much heart as a book twice its size”
– San Francisco Chronicle
“The unflinching, observant and thoroughly persuasive voice of the narrator, a shrewd, illiterate farm girl, makes this slim novel striking”
– Atlantic
“A very powerful monologue that astonishes with its perfect correspondence between narrative invention and story”
– La Repubblica
“An unforgettable, heart wrenching story that bit by bit is unfolded to the reader”
– Flow (Netherlands)
“Raw and tender at the same time”
– Wegner (Netherlands)
– SeattleTimes
“Resonant, heartbreaking… The Colour of Milk is a truly wonderful read ”
– San Francisco Chronicle
“A very powerful monologue that astonishes with its perfect correspondence between narrative invention and story”
– La Repubblica
“An unforgettable, heart wrenching story that bit by bit is unfolded to the reader”
– Flow (Netherlands)