Named a BOOK OF THE YEAR by The Times and Sunday Times,New Statesman,Spectator,Prospect, and New Yorker.
‘Undoubtedly Hoare’s masterpiece’ Olivia Laing
‘Queer in all senses of the word’ Neil Tennant
‘A life-changing book’ Robert Douglas Fairhurst, The Times
‘Fabulously idiosyncratic’ Lucy Hughes-Hallett, New Statesman
