Irresistible, unflaggingly vital. A wholehearted and sharp-minded celebration of the Great Theatre of Life

A novel brimming with themes of music, poetry, beauty, philosophy, death and the deep recesses of the mind

An amazing coup. Davies has written a brilliant, never less than engaging work of fiction which is also a philosophical meditation on the business of living. I have not read anything so good in a very long time

A wise, humane and consistently entertaining novel

'Amid the devilish plot twists Creer makes room to flesh out his principals most satisfyingly, and establish a page-blurring pace which he underpins with a unique and oddly lush economy of language'

'In spite of its savage background, Creer's novel is rumbustiously entertaining . . . partly because Jimmy is an engaging and strangely innocent hero, and partly because of Creer's heady, Burgess-meets-Berkoff prose'

'Creer's sensitive and poised writing lifts the novel into a class of its own, closer to vintage Martin Amis than Rancid Aluminum . . . exquisitely raw in tone, with a sparse and timeless beauty'

Intensely moving. Both entertaining and deeply serious

An enjoyable, solid, gothic fantasy offering

Hugely enjoyable and highly recommended.

a literal fairytale romance which keeps you gripped until the very end.

A lovely book, beautiful to look at and a captivating story. Goodman has a superb way of drawing you into her world, the magic within is subtle, enchanting enough to weave a spell over the reader without causing you to suspend belief.