PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Dolores is a glowing, beating heart of a book; Curtis' sentences manage to be both mysterious and precise, creating a potent atmosphere that resonates beyond its brevity Dolores reads the way a first novel should: short, lyrical, intense, and with adventurous ambition Rich, melodic and marked by a troubling sensuality, Dolores depicts the strange pleasures a young girl might take in her body, and the perils and liberations such pleasures hold A succinct, intense story ... this atmospheric debut is a deliciously satisfying read about a girl at a critical juncture in her life - BookRiot Dolores is propulsive, atmospheric, wonderfully peculiar, a little dark. A dreamy hallucination Precise, intense and aching, Dolores moves seamlessly between sensuality and realism. I read it in a couple of fevered hours and lived in its heady atmosphere for days afterwards. Short and mysterious, Dolores is a compelling, one-sitting read ... Curtis writes the close-up details of life in the convent with as much intensity as the burgeoning sexuality of a young girl, and the two elements chime in a strange harmony - Observer Blurring the borders past and present, sex and religion, desire and shame, Lauren Aimee Curtis's debut novel Dolores is a short and potent story of a young woman in trouble - Irish Times
