Responsiveness characterizes Hugo Hamiltons novel, even more than the cleverness and anguish of its plottingHamilton is a natural storyteller, with poise, daring and control, and he is already quite unmistakable
Times Literary SupplementHamilton has the Irish writers instinct for beauty. This has married well with his German inheritance on his mothers side; the tone of his fiction is darkly romantic. His book ends splendidly and unexpectedly, leaving the reader with that all too rare sense of wanting more
GuardianBy the same author
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