The eye of youth is very observant. Youth has its moments of keen intuition, even normal youth -- but the intuition of those who stand mi-way between the sexes is so ruthless, so poignant, so deadly, as to be in the nature of an added scourge...

Advance sales were strong and the book made #1 on the Observer's bestseller list but it received poor reviews in several key periodicals and sales soon dropped off. The book's mystical themes have been compared to Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha. Benson.

Radclyffe Hall (born Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall on 12 August 1880 – 7 October 1943) was an English poet and author best known for the lesbian classic The Well of Loneliness.