Reviews
"Alice once dreamed of being an artist, but instead became a hard working and successful manager at a computer-software company, supervising a group of over-educated writers who have decided, like her, to make money rather than do what they love. Her insistence on keeping her work life rigidly separate from her private life means that her private life barely exists. Lovers are sacrificed; needs are deferred. Only the world of work is 'real.' What will happen when Alice's red-haired guardian angel, Phoebe, starts visiting her at work, spinning out tales that beg to be written down, and seducing the strait-laced Alice with thoughts of another world entirely? Elizabeth Brownrigg's first novel is absorbing and well-written, a series of stories within stories, reminiscent, at times, of early Jeanette Winterson."
- Regina Marler, Amazon.com
"I'm not sure what surprised me most about Falling to Earth: its authority or its grace. Where did Elizabeth Brownrigg learn to drive sentences so flawlessly, and to structure narrative as if she were weaving an intricate fabric? Brownrigg accomplishes what any writer knows is immensely difficult: she makes good writing look effortless."
- Blanche McCrary Boyd, Lambda Book Report
"Brownrigg's tour de force turns time, space, reality, and preconceived notions of angelic aims on their heads."
-Whitney Scott, Booklist