"Helen is like that: a digressive flaneur through a mindscape seething with fixations on chair design, textile manufacture, the Zulu language, Kant's account of mental ailments, how parasitical fleas prey on kittens in Amsterdam and lots more."
"Unlike Ronnie Corbett, though, Helen never stops digressing long enough to find time to apologise for her self-indulgences."
"It's not clear where the novel unfolds. Is Helen in rehab, a psychiatric institution, spa or east-coast retool of the Hotel California?"
"Helen reflects repeatedly on one of the Manson murderers, Leslie Van Houten, seeing in her fate, perhaps, something of America's capacity for evil and refusal of redemption."
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