"Jane Gardam has a spectacular gift for detail of the local and period kind, and for details which made
characters so subtly unpredictable that they ring true." - Times Literary Supplement
"Gardam's prose is so economical that no moment she describes is either gratuitous or wasted." -The New Yorker
"Gardam is an exquisite storyteller, picking up threads, laying them down, returning to them and giving them new meaning." -The Seattle Times
"Gardam will bring immense pleasure to readers who treasure fiction that is intelligent, witty, sophisticated." -The Washington Post