In late June, the novel was published in the UK and received mostly positive reviews, including one in the New Statesman from the writer Cyril Connolly, an old friend from St Cyprian's and Eton.

六月下旬，这部小说在英国出版，获得了大部分正面评价，其中包括圣西普里安学院和伊顿公学的老朋友、作家西里尔·康诺利在《新政治家》上发表的评论。

He seemed to hold out hope for recovery and proposed to Sonia Brownell, a woman fifteen years younger than him who worked for Cyril Connolly at Horizon and who had turned him down a few years earlier.

他似乎对康复抱有希望， 并向索尼娅·布劳内尔求婚，索尼娅·布劳内尔是一位比他小十五岁的女人， 她在地平线公司为西里尔·康诺利工作， 几年前曾拒绝过他。