[1] Kirkus Reviews said of The Survivor: "An original and piquant idea, which can stand on its own feet without the link the publishers make for it to Dracula, Dr. Jekyll, etc.
(The same review also briefly noted "An unusual little fiction ... written by a 19-year-old girl from the Dordogne ... a nice piece of precosity": Francoise Sagan's Bonjour Tristesse).
[3] A reviewer in The Spectator was more critical: "A ramshackle plot has been assembled around a clutter of eccentrics ... all this energy, all this talent one feels needs more organisation than Mr Parry seems prepared to bring to them.
"[4] Parry was educated at Rugby School and King's College, Cambridge where he read classics.
[5] His obituary in The Times described him as "author of a number of novels which have won both popular favour and critical acclaim".