"All pleasures are guilty ones here, for the reader."
-The Boston Globe

"A great tale of love, death and intrigue in a dying New England village"
-Booklist

"Excellent literary entertainment... Landis' fans will love this Jamesian fantasy; booksellers might recommend it to readers who enjoyed Sarah Waters's similarly clever Fingersmith."
-Publishers Weekly

"A gothically tempestuous, not undelightful examination of the anxiety of influence."
-Kirkus Reviews

"Gothic, in the best sense of the word - mysterious, desolate, and other-worldly."
-Laura Glen Louis, author of Talking in the Dark

Praise for J. D. Landis' Longing

"Richly conveys both the joy and the sorrow of [an] extraordinary love story . . . In a lush, sinuous style . . . Landis draws us into a world at once turbulent and dazzling."
-Los Angeles Times

"Witty, precise, rich in historical detail . . . No couple better sums up the brilliance and intensity of the Romantic Age than Robert and Clara Schumann. . . . Landis has a wonderful capacity for writing dialogue that sounds as if it's coming off the top of the characters' heads."
-The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Penetrating. . . Landis has seamlessly interwoven his text with ideas (about language and music, genius, imagination and the nature of human devotion) that are very much his own. . . . It is almost as if Landis himself were conducting a score, with the two characters his human instruments."
-The New York Times Book Review