'There are not many 78-year-olds capable of surprising their audience, but King is one of them' - D.J. Taylor, Independent 'That rare phenomenon, a novel by a gnarled old literary presence that extends rather than consolidates his reputation. Very good' - D.J. Taylor, Independent 'One of our great writers, of the calibre of Graham Greene and Nabokov' - Beryl Bainbridge, BBC Today Programme
