Peter Parker, Daily Telegraph: ‘Evans has her own distinctive voice: highly coloured, linguistically inventive... Evans has a powerful and often beguiling imagination’

Financial Times: ‘A striking debut novel’

Andrea Enisuoh, New Nation: ‘Magical, funny and devastatingly intense… It really does deserve the hype’

Tracey Macleod, Marie Claire: ‘Diffuse and dream-like, but it has its own haunting atmosphere’

Maya Jaggi, Guardian: ‘The writing is both mature and freshly perceptive, creating not only a warmly funny novel of a Neasden childhood - with its engaging minutiae of flapjacks and icepops, lip gloss and daisy hairclips- but a haunting account of the loss of innocence and mental disintegration.’

Dipika Guha, Times Literary Supplement: ‘A narrative voice that is tender and evocative drifts seamlessly… Diana Evans’s prose is sensual and poetic,as well as powerful and uncompromising…26a is a mature, compelling and beautiful first novel