The Sweet Girl - Tapa blanda

"An entertaining work, full of raw gusto. . . . Lyon has vividly brought Pythias's fourth-century BC world to life" --Boston Globe

"Brilliantly imagined. . . . The storytelling is a triumph. Lyon has delivered a beautifully made and otherworldly novel, revealing a land of kings, gods, and demons that somehow seems as familiar as our own." --Alan Cheuse, NPR/All Things Considered

"With intoxicatingly earthy descriptions, Lyon conjures a world in thrall to the senses." --Elle

"Exceptional. . . . Lyon takes readers on a journey they won't soon forget; it includes love, lust, Greek gods and goddesses, mythology, and more. . . . Spectacular." --Vancouver Sun

"As Lyon portrays her, Pythias is not the 'sweet girl' her father had called her, but resilient and resourceful--a survivor." --Boston Globe

"A remarkable novel, not just a pleasure to read but also a book that I expect to reread several times. . . . While Woolf's classic book A Room of One's Own remains a brilliant polemic, it is a mere sketch compared to the thickly and quirkily imagined world of ancient Greek women that Lyon gives us in her novel." --National Post (Canada)

"Potently elegiac . . . Lyon shows with chilling precision just how quickly a life can unravel . . . She has a knack for intrigue, the sizzle behind seemingly ordinary remarks, and she uses this to great effect." --The Guardian (UK)

"Exhilaratingly original. . . . This novel thrills in its immediacy and the family at its heart, in their love for each other, is instantly, captivatingly real." --Daily Mail (UK)
"A provocative tale that undoes any romantic delusions a reader might hold about ancient Greek society and thought." --Kirkus Reviews

"Lyon does a remarkable job of making Pythias, her ancient world, and her eternal problems raw and compelling." --Publishers Weekly