"Compelling, large and often marvelously funny...a deeply satisfying book." — Boston Globe
"Brilliantly illuminates the many and various facets of a phenomenon as familiar-and deeply strange-as falling in love." — Wall Street Journal
"She has revealed that brilliant kernel at the heart of it all that we recognize as the truth." — Washington Post Book World
"Brilliantly illuminates the many and various facets of a phenomenon as familiar--and deeply strange--as falling in love." — Wall Street Journal
"Lessing is a contemporary George Eliot, an intellectual whose imgaination is firmly grounded in the sensual life and the natural world." — Kirkus Review (starred review)
"An exhilarating and disquieting meditation on old age and romantic love." — The Nation