Extremely articulate, argumentative and allusive...The case against, firmly stated. * The Evening Standard *
a tireless destructor of today's cultural obsession... -- Zoe Strimpel * The Daily Telegraph *
About THE CONVERSATIONS: 66 REASONS TO START TALKING - This book is so unusual, and so good, that I want to spend as much time as possible just quoting it. * The Sunday Telegraph *
About THE CONVERSATIONS: 66 REASONS TO START TALKING -Full of wisdom about how to live, what it means to be you and how to communicate that knowledge to the people you love. -- Andrew G. Marshall
on HER FICTION - Fane writes with clarity, elegance and a wit which raises her interest in amorous foreplay into the Ovidian. Her debut is the most radiant I have seen this year -- Amanda Craig * The Independent *
on HER FICTION - Brings to mind comparisons with Shena Mackay, and, in her hero's philosophical quest, with early Iris Murdoch. -- Claire Colvin * The Times *
Olivia Fane offers a welcome subversiveness on this subject, telling us that sex isolated from things that genuinely matter - kindness, trust, intelligent personal connection, humour and perspective - is insignificant. To use the irresistible image, she is diagnosing in our culture a bad case of the Emperor's new clothes where writing about sex is concerned. -- Rowan Williams, Theologian and Poet, former Archbishop of Canterbury, currently Master of Magdalene College and Honorary Professor of Contemporary Christian Thought
