'Stunning! Robertson's writing is beautiful, poetic and heartfelt. She explores, most tenderly, the self-discovery that can come with bereavement' -- The Times 'Compelling!Utterly unsentimental and warmly confirmatory of the resilience of the human spirit' -- Daily Mail 'Engrossing !frank, unsentimental, yet warmly humane' -- Observer 'Her observations [are] as carefully chosen and charged with feeling as pebbles placed on a grave!CARELESS is an elegy for the lost and the grieving, but it also offers hope!deeply affecting' -- Guardian 'Marvellous...the writing is so crisp, the sentiments so grown-up, that the story's forward momentum never wanes' -- Spectator 'Utterly unsentimental and warmly confirmatory of the resilience of the human spirit' -- Daily Mail 'What a heart swell of a book, so much wisdom and compassion, loveliness and sadness in it' -- Nikki Gemmell 'Magic...Robertson's prose is seamless, seductive and a joy to read' -- West Australian 'Anything but careless in its sophisticated communication of uplifting and degrading events and its illumination of the human heart' -- Canberra Times 'Deborah Robertson dissects human emotion in ways dark and provocative. She exposes the nakedness of emotion, the viscera of pain' -- The Age 'With a prize-winning volume of short stories behind her, Robertson is an experienced writer. Yet little could have prepared her previous readers for the ambition, intelligence and confidence of structural touch of CARELESS. Already, it is one of Australia's novels of the year' -- Bulletin