Entertaining, provocative and stimulating... opens one's eyes afresh to Kent's all-round genius.
Spectator
[Mowl's] accounts of actual buildings and gardens are full of subjective intensity as well as subtle observations... Engrossing.
Guardian
Mowl has energy and cunning in spades, and he wisely takes the course of making the book more of an assessment of Kent's work and times than an attempt on his life... a glittering knockabout of a book.
Independent on Sunday
Entertaining, provocative and stimulating... opens one's eyes afresh to Kent's all-round genius.
Spectator
[Mowl's] accounts of actual buildings and gardens are full of subjective intensity as well as subtle observations... Engrossing.
Guardian
Mowl has energy and cunning in spades, and he wisely takes the course of making the book more of an assessment of Kent's work and times than an attempt on his life... a glittering knockabout of a book.
Independent on Sunday
Entertaining, provocative and stimulating... opens one's eyes afresh to Kent's all-round genius.
Spectator
[Mowl's] accounts of actual buildings and gardens are full of subjective intensity as well as subtle observations... Engrossing.
Guardian
Mowl has energy and cunning in spades, and he wisely takes the course of making the book more of an assessment of Kent's work and times than an attempt on his life... a glittering knockabout of a book.