¿Powered by a fast-moving plot, this latest exuberant fantasy concerns a department store, a female employee-turned-terrorist upon whom the reclusive proprietor exercises his droit de seigneur, and a porter who stumbles upon the hidden tunnels in which the building¿s architect entombed himself in the 1930s. Nicholson has a wonderful ear for the unintentionally funny clichés of modern speech and manners¿ Sunday Telegraph ¿Nicholson, the genius behind this commercial Tower of Babel, is both a master of large, complex, convoluted structures ¿ and a comic satirist of biting precision¿ Kirkus Reviews