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.
“Sarah Harriet Burney Plaque Unveiling in Bath, 11 June 2016”. Burney Letter, Vol.
22
, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2016, 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.