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  —India Knight, The Sunday Times (UK)

  “This is an adult book in all respects, reflecting, with an inquiring intelligence and emotional honesty, on middle age, middling love, sex and death, and the fragility of families in coping with the relentless tow of time and the intrusions of those outside the blood-circle…bold unsettling analyses of the nature of love and what remains after romance.”

  —Time Out London

  “She has an expressive turn of phrase and a gift for evoking a sense of place… Sex and the City for grown-ups”—The Sunday Times

  “[Written] with wry, disabused humour”—The Times (UK)

  “Fonseca’s voice is poised, particular, exotic. The novel is about sexual adventuring but in a serious, complicated, high-risk way. In one sense, Jean is playing at being a man, but it is not long before her ventriloquy becomes tawdry to her… Her quest seems more curious than erotic, although Fonseca writes about sex with comic precision…so good and surprising.”—Kate Kellaway, The Observer (UK)

  “The writing is lucid and sensitive.”—Sunday Telegraph

  “A page-turning dissection of marriage, so convincing in its description. Humorous, poetic, and as life-like as fiction can be.”—She

  Also By Isabel Fonseca

  Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey

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