"Marianne Ackerman’s Oyster is a finely cut jewel, light reflecting off its many facets and illuminating the love, tensions, and complexities of family, not to mention today’s publishing world. I read it in one sitting but didn’t want it to end. Brilliant."

— Terry Fallis, two-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour

"An absorbing family saga that grabs you by the throat and won’t let you go. The Cameron family’s hierarchy of siblings and position in the community as well-to-do Canadian WASP country folk, heir latent repression, the Ontario omertà, the simmering Catholic tensions and sense of removal from the land they once farmed for survival was familiar and well-wrought. The vineyard as a metaphor for the corrupting influence of affluence is a brilliant touch. Prince Edward County is a very particular and distinct corner of southeastern Ontario, a place that deserves to be mythologised."

— Leah McLaren, author of Where You End and I Begin