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Lucas is clearly a man with a gift for friendship, with the result that we feel he gets under the skin of the country… He recreates many conversations, quietly revealing of Greek reality. This is not English travel writing in the baroque tradition of purple passages and virtuoso erudition. His Greece is the contemporary one of moonlighting lecturers, laundrymen, waiters, odd-job men, whose dignity he celebrates with sympathetic understanding. –Nicholas Murray, The Independent

Delightful… an energetic academic and poet, Lucas spent the year 1984-85 as visiting professor in the English department at the University of Athens…Whether describing bureaucracy at the university, the delights of Babi s taverna, politics, poets or Easter on the island of Aegina (where he and his wife later became part-time residents) Lucas is unfailingly observant, trenchant and appreciative… a sharp personal portrait of modern Greece. –John de Falbe, The Spectator