What is the author's style in the novel, Wonderful Years, Wonderful Years?

Wonderful Years, Wonderful Years illustrates the ease with which Higgins handles the art of narration through dialogue. The voices of the characters, with their hesitations and elisions, sound authentic, and they also serve to make the narrative radically subjective: Almost all the information in the novel is filtered through the perceptions of particular observers. This adds to the complexity of the narrative, and sometimes to its obscurity. And as the more recent novels have grown broader in social range and longer in length, the number of dialogues does risk dissipating the narrative concentration achieved by the first novels.