The Chateau

Not just a book of the year but now one of my desert island books. * Herald Scotland *
Delicious and dead-on... All the embarrassments and gratifications of European travel are preserved in the amber of Maxwell's much pondered, seemingly casual prose. * New Yorker *
As the voices of Austen, Turgenev and Tolstoy have survived, so will Maxwell's. There aren't many truly great writers among us. William Maxwell is one of them * The Times *
It's hard not to see it as a work of genius * Times Literary Supplement *
He combines educated intelligent and instinctive apprehension of human complexity in a way that would have earned Henry James' approval. William Maxwell is the very model of what a novelist should be * Independent on Sunday *
Perennially endearing * Spectator *
Surprising on every page... I ended The Château feeling very sad that it was over -- Brandon Taylor, author of Real Life
Reading The Chateau is like meeting a very old friend with whom the conversation is always spontaneous, intimate, restorative and unpredictable