As urgent as it is meditative and thought provoking; Unsafe delights in its breathtaking use of language and form, it devastates in its clarity of vision

PRETI TANEJA, author of We That Are Young

Suspenseful, inventive and empathetic – a brooding performance of surveilled, stolen, risky and reclaimed space where reading becomes an act of witness, companionship and defiance

ELIZABETH-JANE BURNETT, author of The Grassling

McCarthy Woolf's tuning fork always rings true

Kate Kellaway, Guardian

One of the most intellectually daring writers of our generation

MONA ARSHI, author of Somebody Loves You

McCarthy Woolf possesses a rare, uncanny power

KIT FAN, author of The Ink Cloud Reader