The Dutch Maiden

A darkly obsessive novel about a girl training as a fencer on the eve of the Second World War...De Moor's novel has darkly gothic overtones, reminiscent in places of both Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights...--Kirkus Reviews

...it is Janna's intense emotional world, the foreboding atmosphere of pre-World War II Germany and the richness of de Moor's imagination that make The Dutch Maiden one of the most delicious novels I've read in ages. --Danielle Trussoni, The New York Times

With Marente de Moor, Dutch literature has won a very original writer, one with an apparently inexhaustible imagination, who will, hopefully, write many more novels as exhilarating as this one. --Trouw

An ominous atmosphere, moral dilemmas, raging passions--all evoked by beautifully sculpted sentences' --NRC Handelsblad

A masterfully written story that sparkles and effervesces, demonstrating the richness of the language on every page --Limburgs Dagblad

De Moor's nature metaphors are of an animalistic power, her reflections are as clever as they are distinctive, and how she evokes the sultry, stormy atmosphere on the eve of World War II testifies to her great storytelling ability --Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

A fascinating read: a gothic romance transplanted to 1930s Germany. De Moor has lined up all the essential gothic elements--powerful currents of sexuality, a rambling old house, a possibly treacherous servant, a dark and brooding man whose true affinity is with the wildness of nature--and sent them on a collision course with concepts that come from somewhere else entirely --The Herald Scotland

The Dutch Maiden has beautifully constructed chapters, which have been preserved in translation: an interesting, recommended read --Dutch News

Mysteries, intrigues, old wounds, new wounds, tension, and sensation. The Dutch Maiden reads smoothly and swallows you up completely --Pink Bullets