Kate Kellaway
called this a bleak novel, which inspires the uncomfortable emotion of pity for its characters. She judged that Tremain is here writing at the height of her inimitable powers.
Burney Letter, Vol.
22
, No. 1, p. 16.
Michael Pye
concluded...
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Pye, Michael. “Genuine Fake”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4336, p. 507.
Pye, Michael. “Rose Tremain, Gustav Sonata”. The New York Times.