A Dangerous Place Salt 2012 Stepping Out
(winner of the V.S.Pritchett Prize 2009)
Cynthia Rogerson is a new writer of great clarity and humanity - definitely one to watch.
- AL Kennedy
Cynthia Rogerson tells a compelling and involving story.
- Jackie Kay
Cynthia writes with delicate poignancy and wit. Her stories, sometimes funny, sometimes slightly surreal, sometimes unbearably sad, unravel seamlessly and with a sense of place. Her characters are always utterly real.
- Isla Dewar
A Dangerous Place is an intensely felt and movingly rendered story. A worthy prize winner.
- Bernard MacLaverty
Cynthia Rogerson is a writer of tremendous heart and intellect and manages to combine the two without trace of sentimentality. Like Alice Munro she writes with startling authenticity and is a North American writer with Scottish sensibilities. Her humour is sly, her characterisation superb, she winkles out and makes heroic the average nerd in all of us. She is a courteous rebel and currently one of Scotland’s best writers.
- Laura Marney
Cynthia Rogerson is a writer who brilliantly melds warm insight with sure eloquence, great characterisation with tight dialogue, terrific depths with vital subtleties. The overall effect is a literature that moves through beauty, humour and mystery towards a better understanding of what makes us human.
- Kevin MacNeil
The story is told with a measured calm, almost a distance and certainly a lack of sentimentality.
Yet it is, when she decides to take us close, just a breath away from
becoming intimate, moving, sad. This is some feat for a writer, something we all want to
achieve. A beautiful short story.
- Tim Pears
