 Dara shows how a novel can be experimental, yet moral, rule breaking but emotional, and post-humanist while still remaining deeply human.This scrapbook builds in stretches until the whole police blotter cum family album lies open in aerial view.Monumental, unforgiving, cunning and heartfelt, it lets no one off the hook, least of all the reader.”

The mystery surrounding Dara combined with the fact that Powers very rarely provides blurbs led some to speculate that Powers might be the man behind the nom de plume.