PositiveThe Guardian (UK)... dashing ... Roberts brings her 1950s setting to life with evident pleasure in period props, scents and colours ... While it is interesting to compare Marion\'s and Patrick\'s versions of events, and especially their different feelings for Tom, the juxtaposition is a formal oddity, with Patrick\'s diary entries floating free of the scenario – Marion frantically scribbling her manuscript in the bungalow and storing it in the kitchen drawer – that Roberts has so carefully contrived ... But she writes persuasively about both these characters, who find themselves in conflict not only with the rules governing sexual behaviour but with the desires signalled by their own bodies. Her novel is a humane and evocative portrait of a time when lives were destroyed by intolerance.
