DISTURBANCE OF THE INNER EAR: Reviews
The
New York Times
"Singular and... haunting."
Newsday
"Hackett employs a lush and perfectly pitched lyricism to tell her
tale...Her talent for the apt metaphor is virtuosic. Music provides this
writer not only with an engrossing story but the images to give it extraordinary
emotional resonance."
Chicago
Tribune
"An extraordinary novel of history, music and love."
"Hackett's first novel is a marvel of narrative flow..."
Publishers Weekly
"Defiantly out of the ordinary...this keenly imagined novel earns admission to a small collection of uncompromising, similarly stylistically distinctive novels, including the works of Jean Rhys and Jane Bowles."
"A superb novel."
Classic FM
"Hackett's first novel is a monumental achievement."
"A startling, memorable debut" with a "breathtaking elegiac atmosphere"...Hackett is "a rare find: a thinking, feeling novelist with a stinging stylistic flair and a monumental story to tell."
“Painfully intense.”
Irish Examiner
"Hackett writes an intricately entwined prose...a novel that soars."
“Compelling.”
"With a real flair for language, Hackett tells a fascinating story..."