'Dazzling... For sheer narrative invention she is without an equal.' Stevie Davies, Independent'The writing style is energetic and zappy... original, cleverly imagined' Tamsin Dean, Sunday Telegraph'Outstanding novel, among the best I have read for years.' Spectator'What is remarkable is Elderkin's ability to conjure up the Australian outback with such confidence... a book to be admired.' Guardian'Susan Elderkin's first novel Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains, won her a devoted following. The Voices doesn't disappoint.' Time Out

Susan Elderkin is the acclaimed author of Sunset over Chocolate Mountains. Born in 1968, she has worked as an ice-cream seller, an English teacher in a Slovakian shoe factory and, for the past five years, as a freelance journalist. She lives in New York.