‘ . . . very strange and involving . . . the combination of manic farce with warmth and wisdom seems quite new to me . . . certainly deserves to become a classic of English eccentricity.’
                                                               John Fuller

'. . . glorious profusion . . . '
                                      The Economist

 

 

 

 

‘The writing is so elegant and malicious in its tone . . . The text delights in lush torrents of weirdness . . . Fallowell has constructed an alternate England, heavily distorted for comic effect . . . one of the best books of the year . . . ’
        Andrew Biswell, Scotland on Sunday

 

 

‘A rococo romp through eccentric England.’
                            Richard Canning, Independent

 

‘The novel possesses a mad, bucolic festiveness that one might wish to meet with at a country fete but sadly rarely does.’
  Harriet Waugh, Spectator

 
‘This grotesque, gothic, theatrical fantasy . . . an extraordinary, far-reaching book . . . it takes us back and forth through great swathes of English life.’
  Andrew Barrow, Literary Review
 

 

‘It manages to capture the curious world of darkly frozen hysteria that is our English countryside . . . painstaking dedication to describing nature . . . the madness going on is paradoxically familiar and surprising . . . extremely funny’
                  Paul Pickering, Daily Express