`Her stylistic bravura is breathtaking and heartbreaking. It is hard to believe that such passionate and mature writing can be found in a first book; we predict for her national acclaim and a distinguished career.'
    - PQL Editor John Metcalf

`Astonishing. There really isn't another word to describe Caroline Adderson's first book, Bad Imaginings, a collection of 10 stories so superior it is almost impossible to believe the author is only 30 years old - though it is entirely possible to see why she was recently nominated for a Governor General's Award.... These often funny and always adventurous stories are deeply felt and wildly imagined tributes to our own fragile, blinkered lives. And they fulfil the only real condition of art: they make you feel richer for having read them.'
    - Georgia Straight

`Bad Imaginings is the sort of book that stays with a reader long after it has been closed. A singular book, deep and mature. Caroline Adderson deserves congratulations.'
    - The Globe and Mail

`Caroline Adderson's imaginings are about as far from bad as imaginings can get. The stories in her debut collection are powerfully conceived, subtly constructed, and amazingly diverse in tone. Adopting the perspectives of a wildly eclectic group of characters, her prose is always fresh: Adderson is as comfortable in the boots of a 19th-century gold miner as she is in the crocheted slippers of a sad and embittered grandmother. And despite some very poignant moments, she is never sentimental. ... A finalist for the Governor General's Award, Bad Imaginings is the work of a young writer with confidence and style.'
     - Shift

`... a collection that challenges the soul as well as the intellect.'
    - The Vancouver Sun

`... wit, flair for language, and wickedly uninhibited perception.'
    - The Toronto Star