I believe I actually understood most of what Davies was talking about! (Or at least I thought I understood it, which is a step up from a lot of astronomy books for me.) It's always good to see a book that purports to be written for laypeople actually, you know, be written for laypeople. And I was fascinated. Davies has a very lucid style, which makes the very interesting ideas he talks about clear and compelling. The diagrams were both simple and useful, and I liked the wry touches of humour and science fiction that leavened the cosmological concepts. Would definitely be willing to read more by this author in future!