A work written with an authority and ease . . . .The novel pits the valuable bonds among women against the antagonism of the opposite sex. Temples of Delight celebrates imagination in fiction and in life.

New York Times Book Review

As tricky as a master composer, Trapido has taken us on a spiritual journey right through the dark forest of lost friendships and broken hearts, out into the sunshine of renewal.

Los Angeles Times

Like Trapido's celebrated first novel, Brother of the More Famous Jack, it is quirky, wise, and warm, full of charm and entirely original. More than a play on the Mozart opera, Temples of Delight is a sly comment on contrivance and serendipity, loss and gain. Wry and generous, it has a delightfully eccentric vision and . . . is blessed with a delicious sense of the absurd.

San Francisco Chronicle

'Steel yourself for a baroque romance of untimely deaths, orphan babes, stolen novels, canny nuns and dark, forceful lovers'

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