Critical Praise

"Richardson, who is part comedienne, part landscape artist and part Zen master, reveals the vulnerability of her characters with utmost delicacy…there is salvation here, and it happens in this addictively-readable and often hilarious novel..."

—Lisa Jones, author of Broken: A Love Story

"Guest House beautifully exemplifies the 21st century maxim that we are not born into families, but choose those who mean the most to us."

—Bruce Feld, co-author of The Givers and the Takers

"This book reminds me of Keri Hulme's extraordinary Bone People, which won one of the world's great literary prizes, the Booker, some 25 years ago. But Richardson's prose is more graceful than Hulme's, and her characters seem even more alive..."

—Ed Kanze, author of Over the Mountain and Home Again

"The people living in Guest House are as particular and real --- and flawed --- as our neighbors, our friends, ourselves. In this remarkably generous novel Barbara Richardson chronicles not only the betrayals and sorrows of the human heart, but the love and hope and caring that heals it."

—Molly Gloss, author of The Hearts of Horses