A selection of Beta reader comments from our prerelease readers. "I am absolutely floored by the writing style. The author has a gift for anatomical metaphors that make the physical world feel incredibly alive, describing a London morning as an anaemic pallor or humanity being bound in walls of flesh. The recurring image of grief as black treacle slithering through gut is one of the most visceral descriptions of loss I’ve ever read. It’s dense, sophisticated and deeply atmospheric. This...