Songs from the Violet Café

'Readers are in good hands; like all Kidman's writing, it is engaging and captivating' The Lady Magazine

'Absorbing and fearlessly written. Beautifully executed!' Caroline Wallace, author of The Drowning of Arthur Braxton and The Finding of Martha Lost

'A novel of relationships and how the effects of our interactions with each other ripple out across both time and distance... A truly wonderful novel' Literary Flits

'A novelist writing at the peak of her powers' New Zealand Herald

'Fiona Kidman has written a subtle, intensely wrought novel of echoes and shadows falling across decades and continents. The interwoven lives emerge and disappear with the abrupt clarity of memory. Stark and unsentimental in its acceptance of dependence, warm and haunting about lives never quite but almost reclaimed' Janet Todd, author of The Secret Life of Aphra Behn

'A work of vision and maturity that tells a compelling story with a lightness of touch and a delight in the sensuous things of life food, clothes, sex that help the reader to assimilate its larger, more sombre purpose' Weekend Herald

'Like a maker of fine lace, Kidman twists each thread of her plot ... to create a superbly crafted centre piece' Daily Post