This is an immaculate British road novel; a melancholic, enigmatic odyssey that transforms our bleak little island into an uncanny fantasy world
SFX
Cerebral space-dust
ARENA
Noon navigates his dystopia with tremendous verve… As well as being a road novel, Falling Out of Cars also toys with being a fantasy quest, thriller, and social allegory before thumbing its nose at the lot of them and creating a vivid, unique space of its own.
THE TIMES
This is classic Noon – strange, compelling and disturbing
THE LIST
Falling Out of Cars is part of Noon’s continuing revolt out of genre and into creative resistance against all traditional forms of fiction
THE GUARDIAN
Falling Out of Cars is the place where Jeff Noon’s expansive imagination has found its poetic equal. The end result is both compelling and lovely. Book of the year! No doubt about it.
MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS
Fragmented and Lynchian, this is a mournful, achingly lonely book packed with resonant, filmic imagery. Its refusal to resolve itself will either irritate you or make perfect sense.
SLEAZENATION
SFX
Cerebral space-dust
ARENA
Noon navigates his dystopia with tremendous verve… As well as being a road novel, Falling Out of Cars also toys with being a fantasy quest, thriller, and social allegory before thumbing its nose at the lot of them and creating a vivid, unique space of its own.
THE TIMES
This is classic Noon – strange, compelling and disturbing
THE LIST
Falling Out of Cars is part of Noon’s continuing revolt out of genre and into creative resistance against all traditional forms of fiction
THE GUARDIAN
Falling Out of Cars is the place where Jeff Noon’s expansive imagination has found its poetic equal. The end result is both compelling and lovely. Book of the year! No doubt about it.
MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS
Fragmented and Lynchian, this is a mournful, achingly lonely book packed with resonant, filmic imagery. Its refusal to resolve itself will either irritate you or make perfect sense.
SLEAZENATION