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A joy...It stimulates the intellect. It bridges disciplines by linking intellectual understanding with the kind of relaxing enjoyment to be expected from a good novel - The Economist

A joy to read. It is a celebration of a world in which time does not march brutally through people's lives, but rather skips and gambols, forever quirky and unpredictable - The Times

It is at once intellectually provocative and touching and comic and so very beautifully written. Quite frankly I haven't been so excited by a novel, let alone a first novel, for a very long time - Salman Rushdie

A dazzling first novel...entirely original - The Sunday Times

Full of zest - Doris Lessing

Alan Lightman was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1948, and was educated at Princeton and the California Institute of Technology. He has written for Granta, Harper's, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books. His highly acclaimed novel GOOD BENITO, about the clash between the absolutes of science and the vagaries of human experience, is also published by Sceptre. He is now professor of science and writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.