PositiveThe Minneapolis Star TribuneFans of Simonson's first novel, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, will be happy to find that her social comedy is just as fine-grained, filled with such delicious characters as the unctuous American novelist whose dramatic 'sighing garners him three or four dinner invitations a week' and the mayor's wife who demands her fair share of Belgian refugees. But the historic backdrop of this sprawling (and occasionally meandering) novel also allows her to spread her wings.
