The Memory Artists - Tapa dura

the story is unforgettably human...[Moore] leaves the reader spellbound. (Samantha Boyce SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY (22.8.04))

Althought Moore tantalisingly leaves many questions unanswered, all the hallmarks of his fiction are here. They include an ability to create engaging characters, and a fine balance of warmth, insight and eviscerating humour. (Julie Wheelwright iNDEPENDENT (27.8.04))

Jeffrey Moore uses Noel's genius and synaesthesia to offer beautiful descriptions of other luridly coloured (and memory dysfunctional) characters, as well as his experience of his mother's disease to portray the agony of watching a loved one's inevitable decline. He also finds time to delve into the sometimes murky world of medical research and comment on the role of medicine as an interface between science and art...wonderfully intense. (Lindsay Banham THE LANCET (4.9.04))

Jeffrey Moore's second novel is a model of inventiveness...Parts of the novel are very moving. The excerpts from Stella's and Noel's diaries, as Alzheimer's takes its hold, and the depictions of Stella's condidtion, show how the disease kills two people. (Alan White TLS (17.9.04))

Jeffrey Moore presents us with a truly bizarre group of characters engaged in incredible pursuits. He mixes straight narrative, overseen by a rather sinister Svengali-like professor of neurology, with diary entries, newspaper reports and end notes providing a sense of scholarly authenticity to his fantasy. (Gordon Parsons MORNING STAR (8.11.04))

A challenging book, bristling with scientific and literary references from Feynman to Baudelaire by way of Nietzsche and Rossetti, this will not fail to make a huge impact. (GOOD BOOK GUIDE (1.12.04))

The Memory Artists is extraordinarily erudite and written with consummate elegance. It is hilarious, filled with pathos and irony, twisted, satirical, tragicomic and extremely challenging. It is a delight...beautiful...inspired, what more can I say? Read it. (CHATSHOW NETWORK (Book of the Week - 22 November))