'Martyn Goff handles his theme sensitively and calmly, developing the entangled relationships skilfully and credibly.' - "Books and Bookmen"
'Mr Goff writes well. His concern is to show the interaction of private and public life, the effect that a scandal in high places has on those caught up in it. . . . Mr Goff has] both narrative power and talent.' - "Punch"
'Mr. Goff writes compassionately and he has a gift for bringing out the drama in people's ordinary confrontations with each other.' - "Sunday Times"
David Coulsdon, an art student, is astonished when his parents finally...

" B]rave . . . plainly the work of an intelligent novelist." - "Times Literary Supplement"
"It is doubtful whether since male homosexuality was admitted as a subject for treatment in English fiction it has inspired a more satisfactory novel than Martyn Goff's "The Plaster Fabric."" - "Spectator"
"Mr. Goff's earnest handling of his extremely delicate subject, homosexuality, commends him to serious attention . . . The sense of impending doom, of the hostility of society, of insecurity, and the constant terror of betrayal are all well conceived." - John Betjeman, "Daily Telegraph"
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