The Liquidator follows the changing fortunes of Tony and Josie, a golden couple who start off under the wing of bankruptcy specialist, Geoffrey Pagan-Jones. Pagan-Jones isn't the book's only liquidator, since it also involves the Miraculous Liquefaction of the Magdalene at a Middle Eastern church This is something of a "state of the nation" novel, but richer and more elegant than that might suggest there is a wiser and more melancholy sense of transience and mutability-Sunday Times 

He is as talented a novelist as any of my generation. He has an admirable lightness of touch which nevertheless doesn't prevent him from dealing with serious subjects extremely entertaining-Allan Massie,

The Scotsman Sly and skilful... it is agreeable to encounter so deft an alternative voice as Ferdinand Mount's once encountered it proves surprisingly addictive-Anita Brookner, Spectator.