“This is a despairing but oddly companionable book that could have been written by Jean Rhys if she’d been a member of the Imelda Marcos crowd. Bratty, decadent, maddening, yes, but also compulsively readable, impeccably written and convincing. Sabina Murray has revealed to me a world that I hadn’t even suspected might exist.”
- Edmund White

“Isobel della Fortuna’s journey into darkness unfolds with a steady lucidity of focus many a mature novelist will envy. Sabina Murray is a gifted writer, a true natural. One who would tell a good story if she had always lived in a box. Fortunately for us, she grew up in Manila, an exotic, troubled city. Slow Burn is grounded in a world of contrasts only an insider could know, not just wealth and poverty, corruption and squalor (though Murray has always an eye on these) but beauty and pathos as well.”
- Valerie Martin