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- Ffion Dafis, Rhaglen Ffion Dafis, Radio Cymru
A rare, refreshingly female-focused dystopian thriller, centred on an ordinary wife and mother surviving in a post-apocalyptic world.
The Significance of Swans is a quite charming and refreshingly different book. Faced with a dystopian scenario we are not presented with a gung-ho hero, teams of confused experts or any other literary stereotype, but with a middle-aged woman who, like probably all of us in such a situation, doesn't really know what to do or where to go, but takes the plunge and goes there anyway. Rhiannon Lewis is a proven teller of good stories. This book would make a splendid film or TV adaptation.
- Bob Rogers, Abergavenny Chronicle
Rhiannon Lewis' The Significance Of Swans is a perfect novel to pick up when struggling with a reading slump. Fairly short at just over 100 pages, and therefore perfectly possible to commit to reading it in one dark evening under a blanket, it's full of wonderful worldbuilding, set in post-apocalyptic Wales.
The Significance Of Swans is a story of survival, hope, revenge and familial love. These are huge themes, and packing them all into such a short format may have seemed risky, but Lewis brings out an almost poetic quality to her novel, focusing on effective, haunting descriptions and complex emotional punches without overcomplicating them, making the book's length working out in her favour. Unmissable this season.
- Gosia Buzzanca, Buzzmagazine
I thoroughly enjoyed this unusual novella and thought it was the perfect length - long enough to develop themes hinted at in the shorter version from I am the Mask Maker and short enough to keep things moving at a steady pace without ever becoming boring.
- Literary Blog - She Reads Novels
