“The Keep's honest yet intimate approach to the sometimes bitter inner dialogues we often hold with ourselves, concerning ourselves, is at once engaging and disarming but manages to leave one with the feeling of receiving an unexpected gift of a pair of warm mittens on a dishearteningly cold day. In short—none of us are truly alone; the message seems to say, though we may feel that way.”

Joel Glenn (The New York Literary Society Book Review)

“Egan shares Fowles's unusual gift for transporting the reader into a world where magical thinking actually works. In Egan's case it also counts for something real, durable and concrete. The result is a work both prodigiously entertaining and profoundly moving.”

Madison Smartt Bell (The New York Times)