Rosalind Belben's work has been consistently admired. Her novels include Choosing Spectacles, Is Beauty Good, Hound Music and Dreaming of Dead People. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
“I can’t think of anyone writing in English (with the possible exception of Beckett) whose prose is so beautiful.” —David Plante “The grotesquerie is Swiftian, but the compassion is uniquely Miss Belben’s. The Limit becomes a great tribute to the overcoming strength of human love, and to the resilience of a human being even at the extremest margins of life. The book possesses the dying woman so amply as to make her, as we say—broaching fiction’s deepest paradox—live.” —Valentine Cunningham, The New Statesman “I’ve always admired the work of Rosalind Belben, a truly original writer, who has gone her own way all her life.” —Gabriel Josipovici