"In love with life, restlessly curious, seeing objects brimming with their own quirky, animate consciousness, looking at situations from unexpected angles (Young Man Who Hasn’t Swum in Fourteen Years Talks to the Ocean), Fleming celebrates the human in a cavortingly optimistic way. She finds wit and emotional wisdom in language earthed in a literal, practical reality, yet plays with fable-like metaphor and hefts credible psychological freight." – Emma Neale
