Marvellous.. Compulsive reading, hugely funny
Spectator
We are back, of course, with great delight, in the land of Iris Murdoch, which is like no other but Prospero's
Sunday Telegraph
The most daring and original of all her novels
- A. N. Wilson,
Never for a moment does one want to stop reading... I don't think Iris Murdoch has ever written better prose
Daily Telegraph
Ambitious, unique and ingeniously plotted
- Joyce Carol Oates, New York Times