The Hummingbird: ‘Magnificent’ (Guardian)

A masterpiece of love and grief … Everything that makes the novel worthwhile and engaging is here: warmth, wit, intelligence, love, death, high seriousness, low comedy, philosophy, subtle personal relationships and the complex interior life of human beings … magnificent – moving, replete, beautiful … what makes the book special is that The Hummingbird is such an intelligent meditation on life, family, the human heart and the "dictatorship of pain" that comes with grief