Boyle's riveting new novel lays bare the raw reality behind the city-dweller's romantic dream of living at one with nature

The Times

Lively, intelligent, wonderfully written

Observer

Writing on the top of his form ... hugely enjoyable ... thoroughly gripping

Daily Telegraph

One of the funniest, most subtle novels we've had about the hippy era's slow fade to black ... this may be his most affecting emotionally complex novel ... This may be his most affecting and emotionally complex novel

New York Times Book Review

Boyle is a maverick talent ... tension is maintained by a series of gripping conflicts until the reader finally emerges with despair and admiration for the human spirit

Daily Mail

A vastly entertaining tale that balances the exuberance and the excesses, the promise and the preposterousness of the counterculture perhaps better than any other work of American fiction

Los Angeles Times Book Review