'Absorbing and impressive ... a beautifully written meditation on marriage and solitude'

Daily Mail

'Get a Life is about all of our fears: of destruction, but also of contamination, alienation and enforced solitude ... A brave story about the fragility and the dangers of intimacy'

Daily Telegraph

'Gordimer has undoubtedly become one of the World's Great Writers ... her rootedness in a political time, place and faith has never dimmed her complex gifts as an artist'

Independent

'Gordimer's stark sentences and emotional depth make most modern fiction seem trivial'

The Times