Review
‘An idyll as delicious as anything I have met in modern literature for a long time. The atmosphere and texture of happiness, and, above all, its elusiveness, have seldom been so perfectly transcribed’. - Elizabeth Bowen
‘The hardest of all things for a novelist to communicate is the extra-ordinary ordinariness of human happiness. Jane Austen, Soseki, Cheknov : a few bring it off. Narayan is one of them’. - Spectator