The most sympathetic figure in the whole novel is the honest burgher.

But then, the whole novel beggars belief, and maybe that's the point.

At the fifth attempt he succeeded in writing a whole novel.

The journalist India Knight wrote: The whole novel has this ludicrous comedy-macho sensibility.

Each one seemed long enough to read a whole novel in.

And the chief trouble is that the whole novel is cold, cold, cold.

I could wash a whole novel off my body by mistake.

There's a whole novel in their marriage, though it's only passingly witnessed here.

Nick Hornby got a whole novel out of that particular manly obsession in High Fidelity.

There is, however, one carefully calculated chapter in the whole novel narrated from another character's viewpoint.

That's not to say the whole novel works.

In the whole novel, Frankenstein never utters a single reasoned thought about technology or the implications of his actions.

The bigger prize is being able to boast they've completed a whole novel, even if only a first draft.

At times, the whole novel has the cut-and-paste feel she was intentionally shooting for in "Host." But writers write.

His early comments shaped the structure of the whole novel and his insightful final editing significantly strengthened the flow of the book.

The whole novel seems to be prescient, but it isn't prescient if you're aware of American life, because these things happen all the time.