‘Josephine Rowe is a remarkable writer, able to capture entire lives in a few paragraphs, creating characters so immediately recognizable, so deeply knowable, that you feel like they’re surely going on with their daily rituals, their heartbreaks and revelations, even after you’ve closed the book.’ — Lit Hub
‘Pacey and engaging as well as poetic, Little World is a brilliant choice for fans of Lauren Groff’s Matrix and Irene Solà’s When I Sing, Mountains Dance, or anyone who enjoys a short but intoxicating read.’ — Ash Davida Jane, Books + Publishing
‘Short, idiosyncratic … A remarkable concoction.’—Jason Steger, The Age
‘Grandly and enduringly enigmatic.’—The Australian Book Review
‘A slender book that offers a deeper, denser exploration of ideas than its modest page count might suggest.’—Read This
‘A book that, despite its brevity, contains multitudes … Rowe is an incredibly gifted stylist.'—The Saturday Paper
‘Little World is a novel for those who find satisfaction in precisely drawn enigmas. The lyricism of the novel is often exquisite, but still more impressive is its fidelity to the dream logic that provides the story with its insistence.’—Tony Hughes-d'Aeth, The Conversation
‘Rowe's graceful prose offers a suggestive, elliptical, thoughtful exploration of the lives of women.’—Declan Fry, ABC
‘Josephine Rowe writes electric sentences. It's very delicate. It's very powerful.’—Laura Elvery, ABC The Book Show
‘A quietly mesmerising story about violence, faith, loss and divinity.’—The Herald Sun
‘Little World by Josephine Rowe is without doubt a very curious little book with a very curious little story. It is a deeply beautiful book that is entirely unforgettable and unlike any other book you’re likely to have read.’—Australian Rural & Regional News
‘Little World is a swoony, atmospheric, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it short novel told through three interwoven stories … it tenderly explores what small things can make a life sacred.’—The New York Times
‘Radiant ... Composed with poetic fury, Little World alludes to violence while pronouncing evidence of feminine vivaciousness. Even its treatments of the ordinary simmer … Sumptuous.’—Foreward
‘Josephine Rowe is a lyrical fiction writer in the tradition of Grace Paley and Elizabeth Hardwick … her language is radically compressed and distilled, purged of banalities and tedious expositional details. The kind of fiction that is incarnated out of totemic objects and dreamlike images and that is tethered to an overpoweringly vivid landscape.’—Electric Lit
‘Little World is a chronicle of the unmoored lives touched by this small, sanctified body and the funny, observant, determinedly unsanctified spirit tied to it. At just more than 100 pages, it’s the kind of concise, precisely sketched novel that you can read in one sitting, coming away with a sense of having been briefly but profoundly transported ... a book fit for the moment.’—The Washington Post
