Review
'McDermott's elegant, understated prose slips down like a cool, refreshing drink' Sunday Telegraph 'McDermott is a genius of quiet observation. Her antenna is perpetually raised and turning, humming and warm with reception one of our finest novelists at work today' Los Angeles Times 'McDermott never wastes a detail and her sentences have an undertow of significance. They seem to swell, as if the language itself were corseted Immaculate' New York Times Book Review 'There's no one like McDermott her touch is light as a feather, her perceptions purely accurate' Elle
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Publishers Weekly
`A master ... McDermott flawlessly encapsulates an era in the
private moments of one family's life'
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