'This is the story of a dinner party, a knot of people with pasts and connections which at first seem few but are later found to be many … The prevailing mood is urbane: the wine is poured, the talk continues, and all the time the ice on which the protagonists' world rests is being thinned from beneath by boiling emotions and ugly motives … No living writer handles the tension between formality of expression and the subversiveness of thought more elegantly' Candia McWilliam, Independent on Sunday
- 'Stiletto-sharp fiction…as in the bitter confections of Ivy Compton-Burnett, it is the dialogue that propels this dangerous, devilish book' Alan Taylor, Scotland on Sunday
- 'Extremely clever and highly entertaining' Penelope Lively
- 'No writer handles the tension between formality of expression and subversiveness of thought more elegantly' Independent on Sunday
- The greatest Scottish novelist of modern times . . . She was peerless, sparkling, inventive and intelligent - the crème de la crème' Ian Rankin
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Published 07/09/2006
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