Reviews
Praise for DANCING IN A DISTANT PLACE: "Dewar's funny, tragic, warm-hearted, life-affirming story is guaranteed to hold readers spellbound. Superb women's fiction." -- Booklist (Starred Review) "Dewar is an accessible storyteller with a wry sense of the comic...the episodic story is satisfying...comfortable and sweet." -- Kirkus Reviews "Fans of Maeve Binchy may enjoy Dewar's perceptive omniscient guidance through the cozy Scottish world of these likeable, flawed characters." --Publishers Weekly "A fabulous family drama." -- The Midwest Book Review Praise for Isla Dewar's Novels: "Dewar has a great knack of taking ordinary people and situations and flipping them on their heads, and her characters are engagingly eccentric and complex." -Glamour(UK) "Observant and needle-sharp -- very funny." -The Times "Explosively funny and chokingly poignant." -Scotland on Sunday "Breathless...appealing spirited...sparkiness, freshness and verve." -Mail on Sunday, Praise for DANCING IN A DISTANT PLACE: "Dewar's funny, tragic, warm-hearted, life-affirming story is guaranteed to hold readers spellbound. Superb women's fiction." -- "Booklist "(Starred Review) "Dewar is an accessible storyteller with a wry sense of the comic...the episodic story is satisfying...comfortable and sweet." -- "Kirkus Reviews""" "Fans of Maeve Binchy may enjoy Dewar's perceptive omniscient guidance through the cozy Scottish world of these likeable, flawed characters." --"Publishers Weekly""" "A fabulous family drama." --" The Midwest Book Review""" "Move over Maeve Binchy: there's a new writer on the block...Dewar's prose is crisp, her humor contagious...Readers will thoroughly enjoy this romp in the Scottish highlands." -- "The Roanoke Times" Praise for Isla Dewar's Novels: "Dewar has a great knack of taking ordinary people and situations and flipping them on their heads, and her characters are engagingly eccentric and complex." -"Glamour" (UK) "Observant and needle-sharp -- very funny." -"The Times" "Explosively funny and chokingly poignant." -"Scotland on Sunday" "Breathless...appealing spirited...sparkiness, freshness and verve." -"Mail on Sunday", Praise for DANCING IN A DISTANT PLACE: "Dewar's funny, tragic, warm-hearted, life-affirming story is guaranteed to hold readers spellbound. Superb women's fiction." --Booklist(Starred Review) "Dewar is an accessible storyteller with a wry sense of the comic...the episodic story is satisfying...comfortable and sweet." --Kirkus Reviews "Fans of Maeve Binchy may enjoy Dewar's perceptive omniscient guidance through the cozy Scottish world of these likeable, flawed characters." --Publishers Weekly "A fabulous family drama." --The Midwest Book Review "Move over Maeve Binchy: there's a new writer on the block...Dewar's prose is crisp, her humor contagious...Readers will thoroughly enjoy this romp in the Scottish highlands." --The Roanoke Times Praise for Isla Dewar's Novels: "Dewar has a great knack of taking ordinary people and situations and flipping them on their heads, and her characters are engagingly eccentric and complex." -Glamour(UK) "Observant and needle-sharp -- very funny." -The Times "Explosively funny and chokingly poignant." -Scotland on Sunday "Breathless...appealing spirited...sparkiness, freshness and verve." -Mail on Sunday, Praise for DANCING IN A DISTANT PLACE: "Dewar's funny, tragic, warm-hearted, life-affirming story is guaranteed to hold readers spellbound. Superb women's fiction." -- Booklist (Starred Review) "Dewar is an accessible storyteller with a wry sense of the comic...the episodic story is satisfying...comfortable and sweet." -- Kirkus Reviews "Fans of Maeve Binchy may enjoy Dewar's perceptive omniscient guidance through the cozy Scottish world of these likeable, flawed characters." -- Publishers Weekly "A fabulous family drama." -- The Midwest Book Review "Move over Maeve Binchy: there's a new writer on the block...Dewar's prose is crisp, her humor contagious...Readers will thoroughly enjoy this romp in the Scottish highlands." -- The Roanoke Times Praise for Isla Dewar's Novels: "Dewar has a great knack of taking ordinary people and situations and flipping them on their heads, and her characters are engagingly eccentric and complex." - Glamour (UK) "Observant and needle-sharp -- very funny." - The Times "Explosively funny and chokingly poignant." - Scotland on Sunday "Breathless...appealing spirited...sparkiness, freshness and verve." - Mail on Sunday, Praise for DANCING IN A DISTANT PLACE: "Dewar's funny, tragic, warm-hearted, life-affirming story is guaranteed to hold readers spellbound. Superb women's fiction." -- Booklist (Starred Review) "Dewar is an accessible storyteller with a wry sense of the comic...the episodic story is satisfying...comfortable and sweet." -- Kirkus Reviews "Fans of Maeve Binchy may enjoy Dewar's perceptive omniscient guidance through the cozy Scottish world of these likeable, flawed characters." -- Publishers Weekly "A fabulous family drama." -- The Midwest Book Review "Move over Maeve Binchy: there's a new writer on the block...Dewar's prose is crisp, her humor contagious...Readers will thoroughly enjoy this romp in the Scottish highlands." -- The Roanoke Times Praise for Isla Dewar's Novels: "Dewar has a great knack of taking ordinary people and situations and flipping them on their heads, and her characters are engagingly eccentric and complex." - Glamour (UK) "Observant and needle-sharp -- very funny." - The Times "Explosively funny and chokingly poignant." - Scotland on Sunday "Breathless...appealing spirited...sparkiness, freshness and verve." - Mail on Sunday
