"Making Pearls From Grit is painfully honest (and all the better for that), at times insightful about the human condition and it also made me laugh out loud."
"Making Pearls From Grit is a thoughtful, honest, frank, funny, poignant memoir of a difficult but sadly common experience."
"The Mill Pond is a great short story with a surprising twist. Isla is a cracking author."
"The Mill Pond is brilliantly written. An evocative, emotional, and ultimately disturbing journey into a lost relationship."
"Making Pearls From Grit is a thoughtful, honest, frank, funny, poignant memoir of a difficult but sadly common experience."
"The Mill Pond is a great short story with a surprising twist. Isla is a cracking author."
"The Mill Pond is brilliantly written. An evocative, emotional, and ultimately disturbing journey into a lost relationship."