Field Study - Rilegato

“Seiffert’s style places a reader outside and inside at once; the crafted simplicity of her sentences, the way they seem simply to tell you what’s there and nothing else, allows for unexpected complexity. The sense throughout is of something vital, understood but unsayable."
–The Guardian

“A magnificent collection: striking, moving, and deeply thought-provoking.”
–Financial Times

“Seiffert’s best stories are . . . self-contained studies of characters who in their various ways resist the condition of being merely passive or acted on. [In Field Study] her strengths as a writer–her discipline and craft, her accretion of observation, her naturalistic characterisation, her spare but poetic prose, her tightly controlled narration–come to the fore.”
–Times Literary Supplement

“Seiffert has the rare ability to make original and truthful observations in unfussy, economical prose that communicates an insistently individual rhythm.”
–The Daily Telegraph

“This book is so good that even a positive review seems inadequate. It is extraordinary to experience these fictions, each an insight into the ordinary lives of ordinary people. Seiffert remains in complete, occasionally quite awesome control . . . Not even the achievement of The Dark Room, its maturity and courage, will quite prepare the reader for the subtle art at work throughout these stories.”
–The Irish Times

Rachel Seiffert is the author of The Dark Room, which won a Betty Trask Award and the Los Angeles Times’s Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and was short-listed for the Booker Prize. She has also received a David T. K. Wong award from PEN International for her work. After spending some years in Scotland and Germany, she now lives in London with her husband and son.