The Sparsholt Affair

'Hollinghurst is a master storyteller . . . thrilling in the rather awful way that the best Victorian novels are, so that one finds oneself galloping somewhat shamefacedly through the pages in order to discover what happens next.' John Banville
'Hollinghurst can make language do what he wants . . . It makes a lot of contemporary fiction seem thin and underachieving.' Evening Standard
'Few writers' prose can throw a party as easily as retire to the library as Hollinghurst' Spectator
'Mr. Hollinghurst's great gift as a novelist is for social satire as sharp and transparent as glass, catching his quarry from an angle just an inch to the left of the view they themselves would catch in the mantelpiece mirror.' New York Observer
'Hollinghurst is quietly brilliant about architecture, both in the specific sense of a cultural discourse about buildings, and the broader sense of how people behave in different kinds of place' Daily Telegraph