"A hypnotic storyteller who leaves in his wake a trail of curiosity and unease."
-Anita Brookner
"It's the sort of novel that ought to be more common than it is. Full of old-fashioned, raucous pleasure: a real rattler of an entertainment."
-Philip Hensher, "Spectator"
"A big, broad, sweeping book, as disturbing as it is funny."
-"Guardian"
"He grapples with the concerns both of the heart and the intellect and it is grippingly readable."
-"Times Literary Supplement"

"From the Trade Paperback edition."