It is an odd, comic and sometimes entrancing tale, one that grows both increasingly fantastic and increasingly ramshackle. Only toward the end, perhaps, will the reader begin to suspect its true nature, one that elevates the witty obsessions of the first part into a sorrowfulness between dream and madness. -- The Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review, Richard Eder

Lucy Ellmann's third book is subtitled A Lament. That it is: a rambling, sometimes very funny rant about love and loneliness.... Ellmann, an American, makes her home in England, which is currently far more hospitable to her brand of literary experimentation than the United States. -- The New York Times Book Review, Lisa Zeidner