"Hierdie meditasie oor memorie kan met baie dinge vergelyk word (die edelsteen byvoorbeeld) maar vir my was die lees daarvan  'n ontdekkingsreis van 'n uitgestrekte landskap, met  verrassende vergesigte en onverwagte en baie bevredigende insigte.

"Moet Intricacy asseblief nie misloop nie. Dit is sonder enige twyfel my (Engelse) boek van die jaar."

"This meditation on memory can be compared to many things (for example a precious stone) but for me reading it was a journey of discovery in an extensive landscape with surprising vistas and unexpected and very satisfying insights.

"Please don't miss Intricacy. It is, without any doubt, my (English) book of the year."

Madeleine van Biljon, Die Burger

"Michael [Cope] has created a mosaic of loving memories, using material from his mother's personal notes and interviews with her friends, his father Jack Cope's notes, letters, excerpts from their books, and old photographs to piece together a glimpse into her life.  [...] a moving and wonderful tribute."

Upfront Magazine

"In subtle symmetry the events that formed the persona of both Michael Cope and South Africa combine in the textured shadowplay of INTRICACY. It is a memoir as complex and beautiful as the richest jacquard cloth, its tones and hues catching and scattering the light."

Liz Winters, The Write Co.

Rather than being "united in a narrative", as Cope suggests, the stories break up, as we read, into fragments.

Guy Willoughby, Cape Times

Michael Cope [...] writes with superb control and sensitivity both to outer and inner worlds... Despite the fragmentary appearance of Cope's text, a strangely powerful cohesiveness underpins it provided by the ubiquitous Lesley as well as the author's consistent, level gaze... It is hard to do justice to the richness of this intelligent, moving, panoramic book.

David Pike, The Natal Mercury