“Occasionally, you read a sentence that you know couldn't be bettered… Joseph O'Connor's new novel is jam-packed with such sentences – paragraph after paragraph of brilliance.”——《衛報》
'A raucous tale in which Irish-born guitarist Robbie Goulding looks back on his teenage years in Luton during the early 1980s and relates how he met up with three others to form a band, The Ships in the Night, and make a bid for rock stardom – a goal that was ultimately achieved, though not without collateral cost.' ——《愛爾蘭獨立報》
'O'Connor avoids the genre's typical pitfalls: awful band names, superstardom clichés, no integration in musical history… His reference points create a colourful picture of each era, enhanced by details through cleverly placed interview snippets, press clippings and diary entries.'——list.co.uk