A novel of multi-level brilliance, which offers a smart, funny mystery built around ethical concerns over privacy and biography, while casting a beady eye on workplace politics and male midlife crises -- Anthony Cummins * Daily Mail * Adept, attentive and occasionally beautiful ... When the poetry starts to break through, the book comes alive reverberatingly, ravishingly so. Everything is illuminated... enter the revivifying excitements of adultery, incest, euthanasia; sex and lust and love; dreams, mortality and death... exquisitely metered, intimate and yet profound, glimmeringly intelligent, slyly sensual ... A worthwhile, interesting and impressive achievement -- Edward Docx * The Guardian * Generously and skilfully written ... The unravelling of the novels moral perplexity is both ingenious and persuasive A pleasing and very satisfying novel. -- Allan Massie * The Scotsman * A dark and compelling tale of what we leave behind us when we die -- Alex Preston * The Guardian * A stylist and satirical take on Kindle-era publishing, and is also a timely interrogation on the pertinence of "rampant masculinity" in contemporary fiction. -- Kitty Grady * Financial Times * A clever, neatly constructed mystery -- and the poems are the best thing about it -- Anthony Gardner * The Mail on Sunday * Many pleasures ... Matt's domestic scenes confirm how good Morrison is on family life -- James Walton * The Times * A cunning literary novel Seriously probing about poetry, its origins and repercussions. -- David Grylls * The Sunday Times * Entertaining, well written and acute ... Morrison has an observant eye -- Piers Paul Read * The Tablet * Morrison's prose is easy, stylish ... it is often elegant in the way it depicts marriage, secrecy, and the fragile relationships between friends and spouses * Irish Times *