According to Queeney

"...Ms. Bainbridge has wrought a Johnson so intellectually scintillating and emotionally unpredictable that her novel becomes a study not so much of character as of the mysteriousness of character....[S]he has devised a plot in which the history is solid and yet the truth is subjective....[Johnson] is a brilliant creation, and when, at the end of this luminous little novel, Ms. Bainbridge brings us to his end, we feel two losses simultaneously, the personal one and the loss to civilization."Beryl Bainbridge is the author of 'According to Queeney' with ISBN 9780754054894 and ISBN 0754054896.