RaveSydney Morning Herald (AU)The book transcends categorisation through the intricacy with which an alternate-history setting is conjured ... Much as non-fiction did earlier in Spufford’s career, genre is used here in the neatest way: as a container for dazzling flights of imagination and left-field concepts ... He is on the way to cementing himself as one of the most inventive and protean storytellers writing today.
