A.S. Byatt was renowned internationally for her novels and short stories, including the Booker Prize-winning Possession, The Biographer's Tale and the Man Booker-shortlisted The Children's Book. A distinguished critic as well as a writer of fiction, she was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999.
Lyrical and urgent
* * The Times * *
Brilliant, highly intelligent, fiercely personal . . . Gorgeous
*Ursula K. Le Guin*
Byatt has made . . . an entire world, compressed but energetically
alive in all its details. When we have artists like this, who needs
gods?
* * Observer * *
Byatt's prose is majestic, the lush descriptive passages - jewelled
one minute, gory the next - a pleasure to get lost in
* * Sunday Telegraph * *
Byatt's writing, impassioned and liberated from the strictures of
the novel, has never been so beautiful
* * Telegraph * *
Byatt's prose, compact and lyrical, treats the gods with dignity .
. . Ragnarok is a clever, lucid, lovely book
* * Guardian * *
Surely among the most beautiful and incisive pages Byatt has ever
written
* * Independent * *
Byatt enters with gusto and an almost Ted Hughes-like relish for
savagery into this primitive world of sorcery and trickery
* * Sunday Times * *
Byatt peels back the cover of the book that the girl reads and
takes us deep inside it as she delights in reimagining the twilight
of the gods and the destruction of the world . . . Like Wagner
before her, she dares to dream how the world might end . . . this
rewriting of the Ragnarok is a story for our time of overpopulation
and anthropomorphic climate change, and of all time
* * Financial Times * *
Byatt's retelling of Ragnarok is permeated with the loving
familiarity of long acquaintance
* * Evening Standard * *
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