'Sophie van Llewyn's stunning debut novella shows us there is no dystopian fiction as frightening as that which draws on history.' - Christina Dalcher, author of 'VOX'

'A story to savour, to smile at, to rage against and to weep over.' - Zoe Gilbert, author of 'Folk'

'A superb example of the novella-in-flash genre. Bottled Goods is an impressive debut in the tradition of Eastern European Absurdist fiction.' - Jude Higgins, Bath Flash Fiction Award organiser

'Sophie van Llewyn has brought light into an era which cast a long shadow.' - Joanna Campbell, author of 'When Planets Slip Their Tracks'

'Sophie van Llewyn deftly recreates the anxious mood of Communist Romania. A harrowing and ultimately triumphant story, a must-read by a masterful writer.' - Christopher Allen, author of 'Other Household Toxins'

'The uncertainties of life and love, and the insatiable quest for freedom - bottled neatly in a set of stories that captivate and enchant.' - Michelle Elvy, coordinator of New Zealand's Flash Fiction Day and Bath Flash Fiction Award judge

'Bottled Goods is a masterful blend of the political and the personal, the magical and the mundane, the historical and the hyperbolic.' - Ingrid Jendrzejewski, editor-in-chief of FlashBack Fiction

'A dizzying, daring window on life in Ceausescu's Romania.' - Stephanie Hutton, author of 'Three Sisters of Stone'

'Lucid and powerfully affecting.' - Helen Rye, winner of the Bath Flash Fiction Award;