One Last Look

Moore is a wonderful writer with a sensuous style. . . . [One Last Look] takes on the quality of a feverish dream. --The Baltimore Sun

How marvelous is a book that educates but does not preach. . . . [A] cautionary tale for smart women . . . and dumb men . . . but the beauty of the prose and the complexity of the narrative here far outweigh any edifying messages. --The Washington Post

A beauitiful and powerful novel that records one woman's experience while illuminating a world of imperial folly and colonial rapacity and stupidity. --The Boston Globe

Vertinginous. . . .The sense of passing through a distant, phantasmagorical place with a curious and perceptive guide, is undeniable. --The Seattle Times

It is the secret world of women that Moore excels at painting, a world of unspoken truths and oblique connections. --Time Out New York

[A] stranger, extoic, ungraspable place. . . . Moore is an extraordinarily gifted conjurer of weather, smells and sickness; riches, bliasters and bugs, her words steam directly off the page. --Chicago Tribune

The descriptive prose leaves one feeling the hot, dusty days and torrential monsoons....Moore's image of saffron-tinged India will have readers pulling out their Baedeker's and booking passage on the next ship sailing for foreign climes. --Library Journal

[C]aptivating...fascinating...As Eleanor writes in her diary, 'The writing of women is always read in the hope of discovering women's secrets'; Eleanor and her creator reveal just enough glimpses to keep readers transfixed. --Publishers Weekly

[R]ich, lush...and wonderfully satisfying. --Kirkus Reviews

[E]leanor is mesmerizing.... --Booklist

[E]vocative... --Harper's Bazaar

An enormous accomplishment-vivid and precise, evocative and alluring, reflective of impressive scholarship. . . . Moore is an extraordinarily gifted conjurer of weather, smells and sickness; riches, blisters and bugs. Her words stream directly off the page. -The Chicago Tribune

Splendid. . . . A rueful farewell to an age of conquest and colonization that-despite its period trappings-looks peculiarly like our own. A deeply moving story of empowerment and loss. -O, The Oprah Magazine

Lyrical. . . . [Filled with] lushly described landscape and coyly revealed Victorian sexual eccentricities. -Entertainment Weekly

What Moore has done is to squeeze out of her peppery observations a nascent feminism and a covert sexuality. She heats Eden up. --The New York Times Book Review

Chilling. . . . [Moore] gives Eleanor a rich interior life and a mordant humor. --Vogue

[Moore] excels at evoking time and place-the dresses and the narrative voice just so, the moans of the mango bird in the tree exquisitely described. -The New Yorker

Breathtaking. . . . An engaging, luscious read. The characters are richly drawn . . . [and] rise effortlessly from the page. --The Oregonian

The accomplishment of One Last Look is a gradual unfolding of sensual detail that is truly transporting. --Los Angeles Times Book Review

Sensual steamy prose . . . masterfully evok[es] the likely sounds, smells and sights of early-19th-century life in colonial India. --Houston Chronicle

It is the secret world of women that Moore excels at painting, a world of unspoken truths and oblique connections. . . . It is a measure of Moore's skill that they never are [discovered]. --Time Out New York