Press Reviews

• Independent on Sunday

  With what tenderness, rage, wit and accuracy Mackay writes about loneliness and belonging . . . What a brilliant novel this is

• Guardian

  Elegant, elusive . . . The writing is superb . . . [Mackay's] gentle mastery of language is quite beyond showy displays of technique

• Daily Mail

  An intriguing, witty and provocative story

• Sunday Express

  Tender, funny and wonderfully realised

• Daily Telegraph

  Shena Mackay is a national treasure . . . She has achieved that rarest of things for a writer: creating a world that is utterly her own

• Sunday Telegraph

  A slender, intelligent fiction written in ravishing prose . . . If I read a better novel this year, I shall think myself lucky

• The Times

  Around the millennium, these lives are sweetened by the arrival of a different class of tenant: Jack-the-lad junk dealer Gus Crabb, and half-Indian, half-Scottish and late middle-aged Rowena, the novel's central characte