Reviews of Our Lady of the Pickpockets
Dilys Rose can be compared to Katherine Mansfield in the way she takes hold of a life and exposes all its vital elements in a few pages.
Times Literary Supplement
Rose has a sublime ear, writes vivid and convincing monologues and seems as much as home in the oppressive heat of Mexico as in the dreich council estates of lowland Scotland.
Scotland on Sunday
An impressive first collection of short stories, Dilys Rose convincingly gets inside the skin of her creations. Rose, who has travelled widely herself, is especially good at conveying the atmosphere of cheap hotel rooms and deserted bus stations, on the rarely fufilled hope that a change of scene will effect a deeper change, and on that peculiar disease which afflicts some travellers, compelling them towards the next destination, the next experience, at the expense of the present.
Sunday Times
The variety of mood, style, language and setting keeps this book fresh to the very end and Dilys Rose has demonstrated her ability to orchestrate her impressive range of voices to produce a collection of great vitality.
Radical Scotland