Vivid, richly imaginative, hilarious and frightening by turns
The Observer
Huge, exhilarating, loving and detailed eruption of a novel ... an utterly intoxicating display of novelistic elan ... big and joyous, literary and accessible ... storytelling at its buoyant best
The Scotsman
Wonderfully eloquent and forceful Kate Atkinson goes at the same pace in her second novel as she did in her first ... welcome back, wild north-easter ... brilliant and engrossing
Penelope Fitzgerald, Evening Standard
A stunner of a second novel ... a gutsy book, wrenched from the heart and written with tremendous force, immersing you in its strange, eccentric world
Marie Claire
Part ghost story, part murder mystery, this is an exquisitely written, literary novel that reads as compellingly as any thriller
Cosmopolitan
The quirky imagination, subversive humour and instinct for domestic chaos that Atkinson displayed in her first novel ... are rampantly evident again
Publishers Weekly
Vivid and intriguing…fizzles and crackles along ... a tour de force
Independent
