Critical reception
In Australian Book Review Patrick Allington noted that "Eliot – sometimes Tom, sometimes T.S. – intrudes upon the novel as if he were the humid air that Viv and readers must inhale. And although Eliot and various other characters line up to judge Viv's well-being, her past behaviour, her role in a failed marriage, Carroll works hard to emphasise Viv's perspective, her clarity, her calmness." And he concluded that the novels of "the Eliot quartet have a searching and delicate, almost frail, beauty. And the four individual novels come together to make a tense, echo-laden whole." [3]
A review in The Sydney Morning Herald noted that "Great writers are apt to become monuments after their death. Carroll has little time for literary monuments; his interest, particularly in Goodnight and in its predecessor, A New England Affair, is more with the women in Eliot’s life than with Eliot himself." [4]
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