’In Jimmy, Atwood has created a great character: a tragic-comic artist of the future, part buffoon, part Orpheus. An adman who’s a sad man; a jealous lover who’s in perpetual mourning; a fantasist who can only remeraber the past’
LISA APPIGNANESI, INDEPENDENT
’The novel is about hubris and humans playing god - literally, in the case of Crake, the embittered genius whose secret project is responsible for the devastation that now surrounds Snowman’
JOAN SMITH, OBSERVER
’Superlatively gripping and remarkably imagined.., the novel is simultaneously alive with literary resonances’
PETER KEMP, SUNDAY TIMES
’A success and a breakthrough.., a highly cinematic adventure story of daring and survival’
ELAINE SHOWALTER, LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS