“In spite of the competition from her daughters’ love affairs and rites of passage, it is Margaret Blaney, queening it in her little world of sausage rolls and defrosting cheesecake, who makes this novel so completely enrapturing. Housework is described in such glimmering prose that it seems like a celebration… Although Dunn’s tone is vinegary, she presents a picture of a woman who refuses to regret her own delusions, which gives the book an odd sweetness.”
The Sunday Times
