"I watched this grow from an acorn of an idea in my husband's head to a fully fledged novel. It took two years and during its development we fell in love and married."
"My grandmother wrote this novel and it was published just a few years before she died in 2001. I love the fact that there is still a piece of her in the world."
"It’s the first book I’ve read that has really made me think about the contrasts between how we treat our pets and how we treat the animals that we will eventually eat. I eat a lot less meat now."
"I thought this book was beautiful and wrote to Golden to say so. I was still quite young and I was stunned to get a note back. It made me realise that a reader is more than someone who buys the book."
"It didn't really change my world but I remember my mum reading it to me and my brother, even though we were a little old for being read to. A lovely memory."
