The Man Booker Shortlist 2012

'Deborah Levy's storytelling is allusive, elliptical and disturbing. Her touch is gentle, often funny and always acute - This is a prizewinner.' Julia Pascal, The Independent

'Swimming Home is a statement on the power of the unsaid. Magisterial - Themes, phrases and images recur in rhythmic cycles through this fugal novel. Levy's cinematic clarity and momentum convey confusion with remarkable lucidity.' Abigail Deutsch, TLS

'Deborah Levy has made something strange and new - spiky and unsettling. In Swimming Home, home is elusive, safety is unlikely and the reader closes the book both satisfied and unnerved.' John Self, The Guardian

'Swimming Home is as sharp as a wasp sting.' Christina Petrie, Sunday Times

'A compact treasure.' Boyd Tonkin, in his round-up of the year's best fiction, The Independent

'Dark, sometimes humorous, intriguing and tragic, Levy's tale held me captive from its dramatic beginning' Lucy Popescu, The Tablet

'Levy's strength is her originality of thought and expression.' Jeanette Winterson

'I made notes to read as much as I can find by Deborah Levy - ' Bookslut.com

'She is one of the few contemporary British writers comfortable on a world stage.' New Statesman

'the strange brilliance of her imagination' The Independent

'Levy is an exciting writer, sharp and shocking as the knives her characters wield.' Sunday Times

Deborah Levy writes fiction, plays and poetry. Her work has been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company, and she is the author of highly praised books including Beautiful Mutants, Swallowing Geography (both Jonathan Cape) and Billy and Girl (Bloomsbury).