 The book has been described as “full of clear-eyed observation and thoughtful reflection, as well as comic incident … unflinchingly honest and exuberantly entertaining,” while "The Spectator" finds it “a remarkable autobiography which subverts everything you thought you knew about love and life.” 

Since 1955 Colin Spencer has had nine novels as well as numerous short stories published both in the UK and abroad.His work can be divided into the 4 semi-autobiographical works of the "Generation" sequence; the two satirical black comedies "Poppy, Mandragora and the New Sex", and "How the Greeks Kidnapped Mrs Nixon" (republished in paperback under the title "Cock-Up"); the sexual realist drama "Panic", a compassionate examination of the mentality of a child murderer; the experimental "Asylum", merging the myths of Oedipus and the Old Testament Fall of Man into a narrative written in a style akin to poetic prose; and his first novel, set mostly in Vienna, "An Absurd Affair", which he feels can be sensibly ignored.That first novel was followed in 1963 by "Anarchists in Love" the first book of his four-volume novel sequence "GENERATION" which the author describes as the main core of his work, and “fictionalised autobiography.” Further volumes in the series "The Tyranny of Love", "Lovers in War" and "The Victims of Love" appeared in 1967, 1969 and 1978.