'A profound exploration of European exile and Australian adolescence ... beautifully constructed, elegantly performed, deeply moving'
'I enjoyed Maestro enormously. Besides its thoughtfulness and bright sensuality, it has a playful quality, a love of jest, which appealed to me very much.'
'A beautifully crafted novel dealing with the tragic guld between talent and genius; between the real and the spurious.'
'The necessary elusiveness of perfection, the unplumbed ocean beneath articulateness, the ambivalence of beauty - these are the revolving concerns of Peter Goldsworthy, and handled not just with irony, but with an effervescent, compassionate wit. He can't help being funny, but he's wise too.'