sentences:  Others, though, describe her writing as charming, original, ironic and complex.Maxwell, for example, comments that it contains "racy narrative", satiric comments" and moving lyricism".Arkin suggests that there is an element of the picaresque in the novel and argues this genre suits what she sees as the "transvestism" theme in the novel, as the "picaresque novel is about a rogue or delinquent" who contravenes "moral and civil laws".