Kate Purcell

This book is so full of delights, surprises, quirky characters and insights that you don’t want it to end. It also has profundities and sadnesses and ( apart from using the word disinterested when he means uninterested) is we-written and engaging. It is very different from the author’s wonderful previous novel A Gentleman in Moscow in almost every way, except that it is, equally, a box of delights from start to finish, full of unexpected and perceptive twists.