"With its monstrous romantic-novelist heroine Angelica Deverell, it's a study of extravagant self-deception that's both achingly funny and heart-wrenchingly sad." –
The Millions "Always intelligent, often subversive and never dull, Elizabeth Taylor is the thinking person's dangerous housewife. Her sophisticated prose combines elegance, icy wit and freshness in a stimulating cocktail–the perfect toast to the quiet horror of domestic life." –Valerie Martin
"Elizabeth Taylor is finally being recognised as an important British author: an author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth. As a reader, I have found huge pleasure in returning to Taylor's novels and short stories many times over. As a writer I've returned to her too–in awe of her achievements, and trying to work out how she does it." –Sarah Waters
"Her stories remain with one, indelibly, as though they had been some turning
point in one's own experience." –Elizabeth Bowen
"One of the most underrated novelists of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Taylor writes with a wonderful precision and grace. Her world is totally absorbing." –Antonia Fraser