“Funny, touching and highly original…Jackson has a tender, observant eye and a quirky imagination, qualities that bring this work rare luminosity and insight.” - Publishers Weekly
“A nostalgic, tone-perfect evocation of life in an English village during WWII….Wonderful.” - Kirkus Reviews
“Jackson is too young to have known evacuation first hand, although in this, his second novel, he captures the pain, dislocation and mesmeric unreality of it all with a blunt...touch that sometimes soars to visionary acuity.” - Washington Post Book World
“Jackson’s absorbing second novel bustles like a hive full of queen bees.” - People
“...a testament to Jackson’s writerly skills and imagination. Highly evocative of both time and place...” - Publishers Weekly
