Nobody writes just this kind of domesticated horror story and in this one, her best since her first, Celia Fremlin's at the top of the form she's created--appealing, funny and eventually grim. Claudia, a really dreadful modern young woman representative of the psychiatric enlightenment, collects misfits, inflicts them on her mother (a wonderful old lady) and daughter (a nice youngster)--most recently a young woman muddling around the house in hair curlers, and a poet with a prison record who writes gloomy sonnets. What happens will keep an unprotesting captive audience quiet--it's superb entertainment.
-Kirkus Review
