This Scottish poet's first collection of fiction is superb. Cameron has all the attributes of any good writer, but he has an uncanny gift for recalling the awkwardness of living. The title piece is a wonderful, sad, disturbing evocation of adolescence... Other pieces catch those delicate moments which suddenly define, enrich or destroy a relationship. Often there is a sense of loss, but always there is the pleasure of recollection and the sheer joy at seeing a writer pinpoint those times which all of us have had, and which make us what we are.
- Simon Linnell, The Tablet

The titular novella in David Cameron's collection Rousseau Moon demands attention for oddity value. It's a surreal, hallucinatory portrait of life in, of all places, East Kilbride. While Linda Cracknell brings female experience hauntingly to life, David Cameron delineates with equal resonance the world of men. Already an acclaimed poet, he has in the past worked with children suffering from behavioural difficulties. His stories gently usher characters dwelling on the margins of society into the light and make their lives comprehensible to the common reader. Most of their protagonists strike you as variations on the same young man: sensitive, slightly withdrawn but with easily quickened passions, moving uncertainly around a woman who remains unattainable because she is more mature than he is ("Peaches and Monkey Tails") or cryptic and elusive ("Excursion" and "After the Film") or preoccupied with someone else ("The Prince"). Hopefully the innovative project of 11:9 will be sufficient to launch Cameron and a host of other promising writers on long and rewarding careers.
- David Cunningham, The Scotsman.