Let’s hear it for The Small Press Review. Huzzah!
Never come across The Small Press Review before … but from the little I’ve read, it is a most excellent magazine. First-rate. Forthright. Independent. Dazzlingly perceptive.
Oh - and did I happen to mention that they’d just given the thumbs-up to The Well-Tempered Clavier?
Diana Harris-Deans is the reviewer - and Diana has done me proud. Diana - thank you! A grateful nation salutes you!
I would give you the link, but since there isn’t one, I’ll give you some of Diana’s choicer pearls myself:
"The Well-Tempered Clavier is a love story, a charming and at times truly a fantastical love story.
"Coles captures brilliantly the excitement and pain of a seventeen-year-old’s first real love redolent with desire; the highs and lows, the joy and despair.
"It seems as if Kim never stops for breath as his passion for India is punctuated by libidinous thoughts about Angela and Estelle.
"This is a delightful story that tumbles along, building tension again and again as both Kim and India throw caution to the wind putting their illicit love affair in constant danger of exposure."