In 1998 one critic called this "a little gem of a book, immensely readable, laugh-out-loud funny and intensely moving."

The close of the novel is unexpectedly and intensely moving.

When the last tourists, parched, starving and semidelirious, persist in trying to speak Shakespeare's lines to one another, it's intensely moving.

The stories are intensely moving, by far the most persuasive tribute to the Strip that I've ever heard.

All of this is threatened by something they can neither prevent nor control, making their story intensely moving and entirely unforgettable.

Dr Lector found the shine of butter sauce on her lip intensely moving.

But it is an intensely moving but unsentimental view of humanity's place in nature, with a kind of mysterious charm.

However, Kershaw's book lacks the depth that could have made it intensely moving.

The Resurrection series at Port Glasgow is intensely moving.

And that was an intensely moving experience.