 Her reading-while-walking tragically manifests itself as a rumour that she is having an affair with the milkman, as whenever other characters fail to understand a behaviour (such as the protagonist's preference for literature over politics) it still becomes politicised through their own interpretations of otherwise mundane facts of life.The review aggregator website Book Marks reported that 60% of critics gave the book a "rave" review, whilst 28% and 4% of the critics expressed "positive" or "mixed" impressions, respectively.Another 8% of the critics "panned" the book, based on a sample of 25 reviews.