The real value of this collection is the opportunity it affords us to see the domestic, ordinary, everyday world through Garner’s eyes ... Keen observances.
It gets off to a tentative and makeshift start ... By a quarter of the way in, I was utterly in her hands ... Garner has an ideal voice to express late-night pangs of precariousness and distress, some more comic than others. Her prose is clear, honest and economical.
