A near-identical dynamic is at work in Moran's impressive second novel.

Called it "a most impressive first novel, Bond deftly blends fantasy and realism."

THIS is an impressive first novel - with equal emphasis on both adjectives.

Before I Go to Sleep is an enjoyable and impressive first novel.

The same is true for this impressive novel.

All in all, this is a most impressive first novel - sharp, funny and strangely affecting.

Our reviewer, Robert Bone, called it "one of the four or five most impressive novels ever written by a black American."

This very impressive novel, written in 1908, considers this and other questions while offhandedly predicting much of 20th-century history.

Nor is this impressive and overlong novel a comedy, a novel in which the writer of short stories never quite lets go.

Francis Wyndham hailed it as 'the most impressive first novel that has appeared since the war'.