Somebody Down There Likes MeLukins' prose is supple and elegant his doomed and flailing Gulch family are a stunning comic creation. But even as they writhe and scheme under the law's heel, Lukins builds a highly empathetic study around them, painting all the pathologies that mark our inequitable age. Jock Serong, author of Cherrywood Robert Lukins is an always elegant, supremely intelligent, bitingly funny chameleon: sign me up for everything he ever writes. Kate Mildenhall,