The Independent
"...Dan Stevens is the perfect reader for this remarkably original, accomplished and compelling book. The ground-bass of his voice is steady, low and tense, yet when the text requires it he is as capable of light flirtatiousness as of furious rage. One man emerges as the real villain of the piece: slimy Dickie Cunningham, rich, manipulative and sadistic, given to beating his daughter. Stevens reads him as if smiling between clenched teeth. When Lewis finally exposes him as the brute he is, in a magnificently cathartic penultimate scene, you want to cheer."
The Guardian
"...the narration is stunning. The gentleness of Dan Stevens's voice and his finely judged hesitations reveal all Lewis's vulnerabilities, and make the flaws of this quite awful social circle convincing and human."
The Times
"...Dan Stevens, the narrator, gets the voices of the 1950s absolutely right, as convincing as Lewis's bottled-up-father as he is as Kit's vampish older sister..."
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