‘The polar opposite of an Elena Ferrante, the young Flemish novelist delivers an incredibly cruel fable about friendship and adolescence… Lize Spit raises the tension and accelerates the suspense until reaching a dark and majestic ending… Reading The Melting is challenging and disturbing, while each scene is written with precise realism... Spit knows no fear. It is we, the readers, that are left trembling.’ - Leïla Slimani for Le Monde

‘Lize Spit grabs the reader by the scruff of the neck... The novel itself doesn't melt, it crackles. Spit’s is the kind of debut every writer wishes for: familiar, surprising, imaginative and merciless. The Melting is like a long-range missile that at first only casts a dark shadow as it flies overhead, apparently without causing any damage, but then strikes its target with calculated precision.’ De Standaard (Belgium)

‘The Melting – more than a detective story, more than a noir, more than a Bildungsroman – is as successful a novel as you could ever read. A best-selling novelist is born!’ La Repubblica (Italy)

‘We shouldn’t be numbed, we need books like Lize Spit’s, books that lead us down into the realm of evil. We need fiction to realize what is beyond our imaginations. To experience the pain of others. So we can see, and feel – so we can reach out a hand.’ Der Spiegel (Germany)