Praise from Philip Hoare: "Whales, birds, artists, plumbers, dogs, buildings, everyday frustrations, quiet successes: Minsky’s real-time cast and setting create a revealing mosaic of what it is like to live in the 21st century, with all its joys and pressures, its forebodings and its ecstasies, and he does it with enviable empathy and a great deal of wry humour.”