When you're reading The House on Eccles Road, all you're thinking of is how good a writer Kitchen is and how happy you are to surrender to her way of seeing the world.

— The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Poetic and breathtakingly beautiful... as the story unfolds, readers witness the intersection of past and present, learning ways that relationships are distorted by memory. Rendered with amazing grace.

— Library Journal (starred)

I deeply appreciate how [Kitchen] has done what she has done, but most of all I am grateful that she has found a modern way to do an old-fashioned thing: break my heart with words on a page. I bow.

— Mary Hood, author of Familiar Heat

A definition of a true vision in a novelist is to strike a balance between the novel of the mind and the novel of the heart--exactly the synthesis that Judith Kitchen in The House on Eccles Road renders in flawless prose.

— Stuart Dybek, author of Sailing with Magellan

Kitchen's novel, like Homer's Odyssey and Joyce's Ulysses, reminds us that home is where love keeps waiting and often where love keeps us waiting, no matter what horrors and errors befall us. In so doing, she writes a book worthy of having a Molly in it, a book whose enormous aspirations in echoing Joyce also simultaneously accomplish an unusual and innovative echo of Homer.

— Keri Elizabeth Ames, James Joyce Literary Supplement

Kitchen is an imaginative writer whose work stands on its own merits. Her book, a poignant love story, is beautifully written in languorous, poetic prose.

— The Irish Independent

The alliterative flow of the language, together with the associative image of the flood, awards the language with lyricism evocative of music. . . . Thus, the novel brings Molly back to life, in a manner that makes her an enduring presence in the reader's mind, even long after the book has been read.

— Janne Stigen Drangsholt, Cercles: Revue Plurididisciplinaire du
   Monde Anglophone

Like The Hours, Kitchen's novel does not feel derivative, partly because some stories can be told again and again, and partly because she is a fine, imaginative writer.

— The Los Angeles Times