Dance Prone

[3] 'Across its 400–odd pages, Dance Prone disrupts linear time and jumps between 1985 and the early 21st century, with chapters ranging from 2002 to 2020.

Each word feels carefully chosen; the density and drive of the novel’s language give a great sense of force and urgency.... Coventry engages the blind, helpless evil behind the perpetrator’s actions with thought and empathy, at no cost to our sense of the inestimable hurt suffered by the victims.

The American Midwest, the city square of Jemaa el-Fna in Marrakech, and the coast near Red Rocks in Wellington are all landscapes evoked with clarity….

'[1] For the Readingroom Annaleese Jochems remarked "The blood, desire, pain and loss – as well as Conrad’s eventual contentment – all of it feels true, because of the novel’s volatile physicality, and the unshrinking vulnerability of its narrator.

"[2] In her review Josie Shapiro stated that "Dance Prone is a novel that interrogates music and it’s [sic] capacity for producing societal change, the bonds of friendship and family, and the manner in which we avoid confronting ourselves with the truth.