Feed My Dear Dogs - Rilegato

Praise for FEED MY DEAR DOGS:

'It’s a bitter-sweet family portrait, by turns witty and dark: one of those rare books you just don’t want to end.' Rachel Seiffert

‘tackles another surprisingly difficult subject: how to write about a childhood that is almost idyllically stable and loving. She does so with warmth and some brilliant left-field humour.’ Jonathan Coe, Guardian

from the reviews for SISTER CRAZY:
'Emma Richler is a very, very clever girl.' Zoë Wanamaker, The Times

'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

‘The tone is confiding, the form original and I was charmed and impressed.’ Observer

‘A charmer with a dangerous undertow’ Time Out

from the reviews for SISTER CRAZY

'Jem’s voice is a great accomplishment: confiding, ingenuous, with a convincing thirst for answers and approval...a profoundly moving elegy for lost youth that bristles with intelligence, verve and wit.’
Scotland on Sunday

'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.' 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.' Lisa Appignanesi

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.