"Graciously captures young love in a quiet and beautifully sculpted story that is easily devoured in one sitting."--Library Journal

"Poetic intensity suffuses the novel . . . Resisting easy sentimentality, [it] presents polio rehabilitation as a metaphor for postwar recovery." ―The New Yorker

"Beautiful."―The Dallas Morning News

"The Golden Age is a beautiful love story that insists upon celebrating the transcendent power of poetry and art over the destructive forces of fear, despair and xenophobia."--The Dallas Morning News

"For all its focus on exile and displacement, The Golden Age is by no means an angry book. It is a quiet, elegiac story of love and renewal and liberation written in crisp prose."--Forward

"The Golden Age serenely affirms the goodness in people and the divinity of the connections between them."--Helen Elliott, The Sydney Morning Herald

"The Golden Age is London's most accomplished and keenly felt work to date...her affection for her characters may be contagious."--Geordie Williamson, The Australian

"Fearless, graceful and deeply benevolent."--Helen Garner, author of The Children's Bach

"A brilliant display of life and change: the transition between war and peace, between love and permission, between terrible paralysis of various kinds and movement."--Brenda Walker, The Monthly

"The Golden Age carries the quiet assurance of a classic, which it will most certainly become."--Tegan Bennett Daylight, Sydney Review of Books

"London's writing is at its best when bringing to life the coming-of-age story between Frank and Elsa: their hopes and fears (and those of other polio-stricken children), their resolve, and their disappointments. The setting and place are rich and detailed, and Perth feels alive."--Historical Novel Society