You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else.

Advance sales were strong and the book made #1 on the Observer's bestseller list but it received poor reviews in several key periodicals and sales soon dropped off. The book's mystical themes have been compared to Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha. Benson.

Radclyffe Hall (born Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall on 12 August 1880 – 7 October 1943) was an English poet and author best known for the lesbian classic The Well of Loneliness.