"Who doesn’t love weird enormous-beyond-imagination houses and castles like the one in House of Leaves or Gormenghast, astonishing places that would get a five star rating from me if offered as an Airbnb. So here is another, this one is a kind of fabulous enormous-beyond-imagination sculpture museum stuffed full of giant VESTIBULES with PLINTHS and towering STATUES some of agonised men and some of minotaurs and some of little birdies but an endless amount of them and you don’t have to pay on entry except perhaps with your VERY SANITY.

I boldly state that this is the book that of all books ever written in human history contains the most mentions of VESTIBULES. Unless someone wrote a five volume History of the Vestibule. They probably did.

You can tell that here is a novel that’s impossible to discuss without major spoilers, hence all this waffling. Best to pick it up wearing a blindfold, avoiding all those evil giveaway blurbs. (Blurb writers who routinely explain the plot of a novel up to page 200 should be given ten year sentences without the possibility of parole.)

So, this was pretty cool � 3.5 stars. Kind of recommended !"