Often funny and always intelligent, this is a sharply observed history of the redoubtable McCrea family, shot through with sardonic wit and black comedy. - The Independent
“Shriver sets up and controls this tense triumvirate with admirable precision and a keen understanding of the hastily formed alliances and subtly accorded trade-offs involved in family exchanges...Choice, Shriver underlines, is enslavement as well as liberation, and this novel is a fine illustration of that point.” - The Guardian
