A powerful and mysterious novel - totally gripping
J.G. Ballard
A horrified and darkly comic response to the appeal of totalitarianism, a mixture of Orwellian satire, rural sentimentality and Kafkaesque nightmare...
Guardian
Intensely original...humour and irony, and the smell of the English earth...Its value as literature becomes increasingly apparent at each re-reading
Anthony Burgess
A powerful and mysterious novel - totally gripping
J.G. Ballard
A horrified and darkly comic response to the appeal of totalitarianism, a mixture of Orwellian satire, rural sentimentality and Kafkaesque nightmare...
Guardian
Intensely original...humour and irony, and the smell of the English earth...Its value as literature becomes increasingly apparent at each re-reading
Anthony Burgess
A powerful and mysterious novel - totally gripping
J.G. Ballard
A horrified and darkly comic response to the appeal of totalitarianism, a mixture of Orwellian satire, rural sentimentality and Kafkaesque nightmare...
Guardian
Intensely original...humour and irony, and the smell of the English earth...Its value as literature becomes increasingly apparent at each re-reading