Crystal Rooms

A splendid Dickensian sweep of a book * Observer *
A decent and intelligent novel, one which can be read, and will be read, with a great deal of pleasure * Allan Massie, Scotsman *
As a guide to media London, the novel is essential reading * T.J. Binyon, Times Literary Supplement *
The very good Bragg has forced a complex contemporary plot to work magic * David Hughes, Mail on Sunday *
Bragg has scarcely ever written better...A state of England message transfused by fiction * Tom Adair, Scotland on Sunday *
Melvyn Bragg writes with a lyrical nostalgia which is as important to the novel as his energy * Penelope Fitzgerald, Evening Standard *