Piers Paul Read is one of Britain's most intelligent and disturbing writers

New York Times Book Review

Undoubtedly one of the most talented novelists of his generation

Sunday Telegraph

Inventive and rooted in sound historical research

Mail on Sunday

Marvellously comic, superbly inventive … One of the most arresting British novelists

The Times

Brilliant ... perfect for nights in

Stylist

You don't need to know the opera Tosca to understand and enjoy this book about Puccini's most notorious villain ... [it] left me shocked and befuddled

Spectator