'A subtle and haunting novel something out of the ordinary His writing gets under your skin' Daily Mail 'Lightman's intelligent, dry prose is stimulating and humorous, and Charles's awakening is often enormously touching' Glasgow Herald 'This is a lyrical, highly idealistic evocation of the ecstasies of first love a genuinely affecting picture of loss' Daily Telegraph 'His prose leaps and twirls, circles his subjects and raises them up. For a few moments, it's almost impossible to forget those bloody feet and the pain they symbolise. REUNION, however, always returns to the ground. It reminds us that only in art are we weightless' Time Out