• Dating is a widower’s story, an account of life in the backwash of death, and a document of changing times. It offers the reader an acute blend of comedy and social history. Dave Williamson has created a generous and sharply observed study of how sexual desire in youth and age have more in common than might ever be guessed.—David Helwig
• I’ve been reading Dave Williamson’s fiction for twenty years, and this novel is his best yet. It’s fast, youthful, clever, sexy, and hysterically funny — and with a steady stream, at just the right spots, of surprising moves, twists, and turns that only an expert writer with an expert writer’s eye and ear and sense of timing can make.
  The dialogue is unbeatable, the characters and situations are totally believable, the book is as clear and readable and, yes, funny, and at just the right moments, poignant, as any I’ve read in many years.
  —Stephen Dixon, author of Story of a Story and Other Stories: a Novel (Fugue State Press)

"Astutely crafted and amusing."
- Gene Walz, The Winnipeg Free Press

"A comic look at a generation grappling with aging bodies and young hearts."
- Tara Seel, Cenral Plains Herald-Leader

"Dating is packed with local flavour, from the 1950 flood and cottage life at Victoria Beach to a University of Manitoba "grads' farewell" at the Marlborough Hotel."
- Alison Mayes, The Winnipeg Free Press

"Smart, funny, and at times poignant, Dating is part love story, part social history, part coming-of-age novel....clever, touching, and always hilarious.  Jenkins’s voice stayed with me long after I’d finished."
-- Prism Magazine

In Dating, Dave Williamson often "sketches a world that elicits the smile or even the giggle of recognition."
-- Literary Reveiw of Canada

This novel is an enjoyable romp through later middle age -- it's about time this stage of life was explored -- and the pursuit of romantic happiness.

-- Prairie Fire Review of Books