“Miller’s novel subtly and morosely explores the crisis of Englishness that ties together events of the 20th century with those of the 21st: the colonial anxieties of the Troubles and the self-sabotage of Brexit, which was brought to pass, at best, by protest vote, and at worst, with racist motives or a macho-imperial sense of entitlement. The ironies of Rose’s shortcomings...make this book not only nuanced and affecting but historiographical. It reads truer than memoir...a state-of-the-nation novel, in elegiac prose.”
Read the full review in The New York Times Book Review.
