The Dance Settee

From childhood to old age, from family loyalties to communication breakdowns, from loss to love and freedom.

‘The Dance Settee seems to me to mark [Ruth Thomas’s] emergence as a major writer, whose stories, with their sharp observation of social mores, manners, and materialism, and their detached and gentle sardonicism, can stand with those of Spark and Shena Mackay – which is praise indeed, since the genre as handled by these two produces work as fine as any in the world’

Douglas Gifford, In Scotland

‘Thomas’s strength lies in her accuracy and her eye for detail…these subtle moments convey to the reader a web of emotions’

Times Literary Supplement