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"Tim Parks's sixth novel...returns to a subject he has explored in earlier books: that of mania lurking just below the surface of suburban lives....An outline of this novel, with its signpost of a title, makes it sound schematic, but it is not. Parks's gift is for evoking, often in sinister detail, the everyday: gestures, idiosyncrasies of speech, the minutiae of suburban existence."

Nicholas Clee, Times Literary Supplement, 08/03/1991

"Within less than 200 pages Tim Parks has created a remarkably large cast of singularly well-rounded characters, and has made the reader care about all of them; he has wrestled with a theme of immense dimensions and made sense of it...; and he has told a story that is at once wrenching and wholly believable. All in all, an exceptional accomplishment and a lovely book."

Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World, 11/20/1991

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