"A gentle, bleak, and brilliant novel." (Jon Day Financial Times)
"Exquisite." (Kate Clanchy Guardian)
"Critics reckon it.s Barnes.s best novel for many years and roundly praised the .emotional acuity. of his writing." (Laura Powell Telegraph)
"Emotionally acute, profoundly beautiful, as droll as it is deep... this has to be one of the smartest novels that 2018 has to offer." (Hephzibah Anderson Mail on Sunday)
"A novelist at the height of his powers ... Quietly devastating." (Robert Douglas-Fairhurst The Times)