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The North London sex scene
Claire Allfree, Metro 27 Aug 2003
Thirlwell's comedy of manners, in which the humiliations and absurdisms of sex are brilliantly played out with an excruciating commitment to realism, is so self-consciously pleased with itself that the reader is plunged into a constant conflict of frustration, irritation and fascination.
It's achingly contemporary, too: as three North London twentysomethings clumsily embark on a menage a trois, Thirlwell sends up the neuroses of the age while acknowledging, equally playfully, the literary influences of Milan Kundera and Gustave Flaubert. An admirable triumph of style over substance.
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