There are novels that imbue us with a sense of calm and plenitude, whose meditations, ideas and images stay with us long after we have finished them to grant us moments of profound euphoria. Tatiana Averoff’s recently published novel "The Clearing" is one such book.

Tatiana Averoff’s “Clearing” is one of those books that leads us gently by the hand to a place above reality. The narrative flows simply and honestly, building up in strength and complexity as it goes along [...]. But Tatiana Averoff’s forte are her descriptions of life in Metsovo. She gets us thinking about all those wonderful hours the literary genus to which we now attach the slightly deprecating label ‘genre’, has given us.

In this, her first novel, Tatiana Averoff demonstrates great skill at constructing her character’s mental worlds and lyrical descriptions of the contexts in which they live.