'Claire Corbett is at once a lyrical fantasist and a writer who tough-mindedly grips felt realities. Watch Over Me depicts a world where love and suspicion, resistance and atrocity, pride and shame are so intricately intertwined that the righteous struggle of Port Angelsund against Garrison is at once psychologically tense and narratively riveting. The book feels like a one of its kind mixture of Aldous Huxley, Peter Carey, and Ursula K. Le Guin.' - Associate Professor Nicholas Birns, New York University, author and critic