“Brookner’s most absorbing novel … wryly realistic … graceful and attractive.” —Anne Tyler, The New York Times Book Review
“Impeccably written and suffused with pleasing wit.” —Newsweek
“Distinctive, spellbinding … elegant but passionate, funny but oddly earnest…. Novels like hers are why we read novels.” —Christian Science Monitor
“A remarkable novel … Anita Brookner’s best.” —The Sunday Times (London)
