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Captivating ... Nicholls has fashioned an ideal structure for an affectingly hard-won romance ... Nicholls’s dialogue is flawless (he’s also an experienced screenwriter) and even his descriptions of bogs and muck can enchant. The novel is sharp-tongued and irresistible, the most intelligent treat.
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A great comic novel that also asks the reader to think about the place of humour in fiction: there’s a dangerous proximity throughout the novel between laughter and tears ... Nicholls is superb on the landscape of this beautiful part of the world ... The reader becomes so invested in the outcome of this unspectacular, everyday, cagoule-clad romance that it makes the whole world shimmer with a kind of secret possibility, as if such narratives are everywhere, just out of sight.
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If the plot is pedestrian, Mr. Nicholls keeps it going at a near-sprint, creating delightful agony for the reader ... Snappy banter and Mr. Nicholls’s endless supply of witty and literate observations make every page a pleasure ... Lightweight? Sure, but exactly the proper weight for a book that glides so elegantly to its destination.
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