'Compelling and unsettling ... McWilliam uses the conventions of middlebrow fiction to slice away its usual reassurance .. very funny too, a comedy of good manners in which each well-meaning utterance becomes a source of confusion and dismay'

Guardian

'Sophisticated ... deadly accurate .. brilliantly contrived'

Times Literary Supplement

'Poised, surprising, original .. McWilliam is a connoissuer of uneasiness'

London Review of Books

'There is no doubt about the strength and originality of this talent'

Francis King, Spectator