Brilliantly articulated and often piercingly sad, Dunn's characters find themselves caught up in what may today be termed quarter-life crises - they are unsettled, dissatisfied; prone to despair, to jealousy, to falling unsuitably in love, to deep, unnavigable loss...Dunn's new novel, Levitation for Beginners, returns to the extreme psychological landscapes of these early works... This is a novel about everything and nothing, sour and melancholy, with elements of sheer comedy and almost unbearable beauty... The older Deborah reflects that "I'm surprised any of us lived to tell the tale", and if this subtle book has a message, it is how alien and yet how relatable the past remains Guardian, Book of the Day