'In this explosive book Moore brings a world pulsating to life, with vivid descriptive writing and a series of beautifully accurate vignettes'

Financial Times

'Tightly-made and absorbing. Brian Moore is a highly intelligent writer who has the enviable ability to make you want to go on turning the pages... this is a very exciting book'

A. N. Wilson, Evening Standard

'The profundity of this book is achieved with breathtaking lightness... Moore can push the reader's mind against its own extremities'

Guardian

'Poised, bracing and moving... if pleasure indeed corrupts the soul, then this very novel is a twenty-four carat sin'

Independent