Published by André Deutsch in London,
Rex Verlag in Munich and,
Mondadori in Milan
in 1961

It is difficult to pin-point the extraordinay attractiveness of this story. There are no special symbols to worry us, no folk wisdom to fox us, no archtypes, only people   with special wants and special likes. In all this he proves an unpretentious confidence and skill lacked by many more famous European novelists.

Robert Denniston, Time & Tide, London