My mum donated this book to me for the indulgence evening I'm running in aid of my art degree end of year show. I'm sure she liked it. I hope you do too.

I 'caught' this book at a fund-raising evening at Somerset College for Arts and Technology, although had already heard of the Book Crossing scheme through a friend. I chose this book because of the reputation of the author, none of whose works I had previously read. I was hooked by the opening description of the house I'd like to live in and then reeled in by the characters; I didn't particularly like any of them, but recognised bits of myself in most; mainly, though, it was the quality of the writing which kept me turning the pages. Beautiful prose; Julie Myerson's comment on the front cover says it all.