Tongues of Flame

Religion, sex and mania bursting hoof-footed from suburban doors

Fay Weldon

Not since The Catcher in the Rye has there been such a believable portrayal of male puberty. The quality of story-telling and the cadence of the prose have a piercing authenticity

Catholic Herald

As a technician [Parks] cannot be faulted. His book builds to a terrifying tour de force, made bearable only by the tight prose

Jeanette Winterson

He can write, at will, like a modern Henry James, proceeding with composure through the labyrinth

Literary Review