Maureen Duffy

All the way through this book, I kept wondering why Alison Hennegan's introduction made such a fuss about insisting that it's a difficult book. Perhaps I just missed all the subtleties? I don't know. It's a story narrated by Kit, still a child (I don't think we find out how old Kit is) but an intelligent, precocious child who seems older than their years, focusing on Kit's limitless curiosity about her/his mother, and the mother's lover whom Kit names Ajax when Ajax joins the family circle has Kit's father's secretary.

We never find out the gender of either Kit or Ajax in the novel—which makes talking about the book rather tricky—but I don't think it really matters, because the characters in the story don't seem to care.… (more)