Sister Crazy - Rilegato

‘A joy to read.’ Alice Munro

‘An impressive and important first novel. Not an excess word – both comic and deeply serious. A truly dazzling debut.’ Beryl Bainbridge

‘There is an enticingly breathless quality to Richler’s prose, and in a childlike dash, she guides us through her elegy for lost youth. Her incisive observations on the intricacies of family dynamics are by turns whimsical, intense and darkly funny. Emma Richler sees the comic in the tragic and her acute insights save “Sister Crazy” from self-indulgence.’ Anna Swan, TLS

‘Stunning...Richler has written a deeply moving book. Her language is electric, her formal poise astonishing in a first novel; her observations of the world of children, of the terror of madness, riveting. And she is bold and witty and will make you laugh out loud. This is an accomplished novel of the rites of passage from childhood into womanhood and the dangerous disquiet which can intervene. It should have an honoured place on the shelves, next to Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar”.’ Lisa Appignanensi

'Richler's great achievement is that she has fashioned for Jem a voice that sounds right in the mouth of a smiley eight-year-old and that of a suicidal 35-year-old. Sister Crazy shows us with unflinching intensity what happens when a sweet family romance is never displaced.' Adam Begley, Guardian

Emma Richler was born in London and grew up in London and Montreal. She trained as an actress in New York City and worked in the UK in theatre, film, television and on BBC Radio for ten years. She lives in North London.