Falling in love with an angel has its complications, as this droll, poised novel shows all too clearly. Anne Enright has a sense of the absurd which finds the perfect subject in The Love Quiz, the tacky TV show for which her protagonist, Grace, works. Having a father who wears a yellowing wig, Grace is, "intimate with the subject of shame", taking nothing seriously until Stephen, the angel, beguiles her with his whiteness. With her dry humour, her capacity to render the strangeness of the familiar and to capture fugitive emotions, Enright is an immensely talented writer; the only danger is, that her facility for the surreal will tempt her into self conscious whimsy or Jeanette Winterson style feyness.