The Black Monk has been described by Rachael King in The Spinoff as “mind-bending, impressionistic, genius.”

 “A psychologically unsparing novel…Grimshaw’s long and complex project, to create a series of social novels that mirror contemporary New Zealand life, has reached a kind of event horizon with The Black Monk.” Philip Matthews – Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books

 “Charlotte Grimshaw has written a novel of remarkable complexity that makes demands on the reader….an elegiac novel… But while The Black Monk’s plot may be devious in method…the novel’s images are sensuous, tactile and crystalline.” – Elizabeth Smither, The Landfall Tauraka Review

 “While going back and forwards in time, following connections and spirals of thought, it still has coherence and moves forward at a cracking pace. I find it deeply moving, intellectually exciting, politically provocative and psychologically intriguing. The lines between reality and fiction will keep readers guessing but turning that into a theme is a triumph.” – Harriet Allan on The Black Monk.

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