That's the hyperbolic buzz. And no wonder. Book review by Don Anderson. Little we see of opinion that is ours. Or, as that late-Romantic Harold Bloom might put it, we we in Australia, that is suffer from a condition of belatedness.
Critical innocence is out of the question.
Well, crib the American plot summaries for a start. Henry James advised that we should criticise not the subject of a novel but how the writer treats it. That is, attend to the style. Make Believe is a tour de force, a triumph of style. Thick ice and snow screen out light, causing winter stagnation, or winterkill.