‘Miss Dick’s mind is a delicate instrument, aware, sensitive, intelligent, alive to every shade of feeling and sensation’– The Sunday Times

‘Robert, the Young Man of Miss Dick’s novel, is a prototype of the between-war generation, born in one war and groomed for the next… His feather-brained mother re-appears from an earlier book, and is, I think, Miss Dick’s most successful creation… the writing is vivid and sensitive’ – Tribune

Kay Dick is a woman who writes with care and restraint… The novel is alive’ – Daily Telegraph

‘For all its deceptive lightness of texture, [Young Man] is a very good novel indeed… [Miss Dick] is very intelligent, she has a tender and lyrical sensibility, and observing eye, and a profound sense of the fun as well as of the misery of being young. Also, and most important of all, she is completely honest’ – John O’London’s Weekly

‘Kay Dick is one of the intellectuals among women writers of today… Young Man is a most brilliant account of the development of Robert, a lad we met before in By the Lake… the novel has permanent value in that it condenses into a small space the hopelessness of the postwar years and their effect on youth’ Melbourne Argus