“Everything Turns Away is an impressive mystery with strong thriller elements and well worth reading on that level alone. Where Berry excels, though, is with her attention to each character […] While the four main characters begin as familiar types, they deepen and fill out over the novel, becoming relatable and sympathetic despite some inherent unlikability. Most readers will find elements like the respective bitchy post-dinner analyses and the escalating marital complications perhaps uncomfortably familiar.”

“Berry’s skilled, unforgiving rendering of these flawed characters, along with her propelling prose, is exactly what makes the novel so compulsively readable.”

“This is a layered and seductive telling of a mystery centred around the babysitter, a murder, and how each of the lives of the four married people is drawn into the ordeal.”

“Everything Turns Away is perfectly aware of the ways in which trauma can make people act irrationally, even cruelly. Yet Berry holds space for this reaction all the same. Room must be made to endure all things – regardless of their scope, regardless of whether others have it worse – in order to overcome them. Suffering is no competitive sport.”