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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..