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Not just a book of the year but now one of my desert island books. -- Adrian Turpin * Herald Scotland * Delicious and dead-on... All the embarrassments and gratifications of European travel are preserved in the amber of Maxwell's much pondered, seemingly casual prose. * New Yorker * As the voices of Austen, Turgenev and Tolstoy have survived, so will Maxwell's. There aren't many truly great writers among us. William Maxwell is one of them * The Times * It's hard not to see it as a work of genius * Times Literary Supplement * His gentle urbanity is a joy * Sunday Telegraph *
