“Miller (The Slowworm’s Song) offers a stunning portrait of domestic turmoil and post-WWII unease. The story opens in 1962, when London transplant Irene Parry, the dissatisfied wife of country doctor Eric, befriends her neighbor Rita Simmons... A spectacularly vivid sense of gloom pervades the narrative, whether in recurring references to the obliterating London smog, Rita’s unsettling memories of her father’s stories about liberating Aushwitz, or Bill’s reflections on his war-profiteering father. Even keener are the author’s crystalline depictions of his characters’ interior lives. This has the feel of an instant classic.”
Read the full starred review in Publishers Weekly.
