A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE GUARDIAN: ''DEEPLY PLEASURABLE''
A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE SPECTATOR: ''WHAT A JOY''
''Magnificent'' Guardian
''A towering achivement'' Financial Times
''Inventive, bold, unexpected'' Sunday Times
''Everything that makes the novel worthwhile and engaging is here: warmth, wit, intelligence, love, death, high seriousness, low comedy, philosophy, subtle personal relationships and the complex interior life of human beings''
Guardian
''Not since William Boyd''s Any Human Heart has a novel captured the feast and famine nature of a single life with such invention and tenderness''
Financial Times
''There is a pleasing sense of having grappled with the real stuff of life: loss, grief, love, desire, pain, uncertainty, confusion, joy, despair - all while having fun''
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