| "A complex page-turner" Marie Claire |
"An elegant, well-written page turner about fathers and daughters, desertion, loss and hope" Daily Mail |
| "This compelling story evokes the heartbreak of childhooh loss and the triumphs and disasters in a young woman's search for love and her roots" She |
"Wry, bittersweet and tender ... beautifully written, elegantly plotted" Big Issue |
| "With Out of the Picture, Samson has earned herself a place on people's shelves next to Raffaella Barker, Esther Freud and Barbara Trapido. Between them, they have the market in complex, bohemian families cornered and pinned down" Maggie O'Farrell |
"Samson reprises the fractured family themes from her first collection, with deeper sympathy and insight. A fine debut novel" Esquire |
| "Genuine descriptive prowess on almost every page ... an unsettling power to affect" Time Out |
"Samson writes particularly well about the ambivalent dreamtime of late adolescence, when our lives appear hazily suspended between boundless opportunity and the putative world of responsability waiting for us" The Times |
| "At her best she pinpoints the telling detail in her character or landscape and brings her prose to life with evocative scents and colours" Sheena Mackay |
"Compelling and moving" Sunday Times |
| A haunting story of love and betrayal that ever so slightly gets under your skin" Mirror |
"If she were a dot.com share, I'd be investing very heavily" Tatler |
