'An erudite and elegant meditation on modern life and modern love... Asya and Manu could very well be a couple in a novel by Sally Rooney or Caleb Azumah Nelson... Don't be deceived by Savas's cool, matter-of-fact tone - beneath it lie layers of wisdom, delicacy and subtlety... This is not your typical marriage novel, or immigrant/expat novel, or novel of the city - although it threads together all these tropes. In writing about "the slow and leisurely rot of a day", with all its delights and anxieties, and in praising its "unremarkable grace", as Asya hopes to do with her filming, the author has created something remarkable.' Guardian