"The writing is unobtrusively brilliant. I can't remember enjoying and admiring a new novel more."—Elizabeth Jane Howard, Marking Time "Hugely funny.... But beneath the Wodehousian surface, it is a serious book about men, women and children with complex inner lives trying to find happiness and coping with disappointment."—Telegraph (UK) | ""Piercing insights into married life and smalltown living...Nicholson has a knack for crystallizing his themes in pivotal moments...""—Publishers Weekly "Utterly captures the sense of quiet desperation of ordinary lives .. and the ways in which life turns on a sixpence."—Kate Mosse, Sepulchre |
