Press Reviews

• Independent

  Mayor's achievement is to take the 'superfluous female' of the Victorian census return, and transform her into a figure of luminous importance

• Guardian

  As a literary study of that now-extinct creature, the Victorian spinster, it shines

• Susan Hill

  This is a great work of fiction, with deep emotional, moral, intellectual and social content

• INDEPENDENT

  Mayor's achievement is to take the "superfluous female" of the Victorian census return, and transform her into a figure of luminous importance

• GUARDIAN

  As a literary study of that now-extinct creature, the Victorian spinster, it shines

• Susan Hill

  This is a great work of fiction, with deep emotional, moral, intellectual and social content..