‘Richard Owain Roberts’ book is wonderfully unlike anything else...  I do believe we’ve found a gem.’ - The Guardian 

‘Richard Owain Roberts is one of the most distinctive and exciting voice in  literature today. In Hello Friend We Missed You we get to see that not only is he a writer of exceptional stylistic talent but one who manages to bring characters and places into vibrant life. This is an undeniably cool book but it also has a great deal of soul. He could be the voice of our generation, I hope people are reading.’ – Amy Lloyd 

‘Richard Owain Roberts has to be one of the best writers working  today. Hello Friend We Missed You encapsulates all the complexities and neuroses of our post millennium experience, and distils them into a fully realised vision. In Hill he’s created a character that is simultaneously absolutely of our time, and also completely timeless. If one of the functions of the novel is to reflect the world around us then Hello Friend We Missed You is as close as you can get to a perfect piece of art.’ – Rhys Thomas

'This is so, so good. You will no doubt read this book, as I did, with an ever-growing sense of appreciation and admiration for its wit, warmth, rhythm, poetry, and virtuoso display of a writer in complete and audacious command of his material. What is at root a simple boy-meets-girl story is transmuted into something uniquely astonishing through a wild and intrepid imagination. To repeat: this novel is so, soooo good.' – Niall Griffiths