"Andrew Ladd writes with the care of a poet and the maturity of a seasoned novelist. What Ends is a tribute to a struggling way of life, and an arresting challenge to those who would call that struggle progress. A wonderful book."──丹妮莉‧楚索尼(Danielle Trussoni),《天使學》(Angelopolis)作者
"What a lovely writer Andrew Ladd is and what a compelling story he has written about the five members of the McCloud family and their island home. Each of the McClouds is rendered with a vivid complexity and it is that vividness which makes What Ends so truly suspenseful and so deeply satisfying. And surely every reader will want to visit Eilean Fior; happily we can in these beautiful pages. A sparkling and eloquent debut." ──Margot Livesey,紐約時報暢銷書《The Flight of Gemma Hardy》作者
"What Ends is an exquisitely conjured eulogy for a vanishing way of life. Andrew Ladd's wise and vital voice is descended from Flaubert by way of William Trevor. His sentences mesmerize, beckon as if from another time. This is no debut but a masterwork, an absorbing micro-saga whose completion we mourn. What Ends reminds us of all a novel can be."──Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Battleborn