Personal Velocity

* Miller is a brilliantly observant writer with a sharp eye ... In her hands, every emotion and state of mind are fully imagined and accurately realised. Daily Mail * She is good with words: economical, deft with detail ... Miller writes with a welcome sensitivity ... compelling. Independent * Emotionally and intellectually, every tale in this debut volume is a quick fix, a burst of clarity delivered at breakneck speed: perfect stuff for a visually orientated, easily distracted generation ... This is an excellent book. Guardian * Miller really knows momentum. Each story launches a fully rounded character into play like a pinball sprung into action. Daily Telegraph * A talented and highly visual writer. New York Times Book Review * Just when you begin to think ... that women's literary material is limited ... something like Personal Velocity happens to remind us that good material is everywhere. [Miller is] a wonderful writer. -- Carolyn See Washington Post * Rebecca Miller's debut story collection is a series of eye-opening portraits of women who are either struggling to attain self-knowledge or who are hopelessly plagued by it... Miller's prose is alarmingly unvarnished, as if she's hovering above ... questions of identity and desire with transcendent impartiality... Miller might pretend to be detached and objective as she probes these quandaries, but she's always humane, always honest, and always entertaining. -- Mark Rozzo Los Angeles Times Book Review * Whether Miller is writing about sophisticated New Yorkers or (in Delia) a wife who, with her three bewidlered children flees from a violent husband, her stories conjure up lives and worlds that linger in the memory. Sunday Times