'A tremendous, hugely satisfying read'

'Absorbing, sophisticated, funny and touching'

'Elegantly conceived and executed, The Night Listener marks a long overdue return to fiction by one of America's best-loved writers...a real page-turner'

'His most mature, mellow and moving novel yet'

'A mystery studded with elegant twists and turns'

'A complex meditation on the frailty of fact and perspective'

Maupin's work is like a drug: it's easy, it's fun and it leaves you greedy for more...superb

The great joy of this tender little novel is Deborah Moggach's sensory imagination

The characterisation is superb, Moggach has brilliantly resurrected a world of genteel penury and intense, furtive sex, and the book exudes quiet excellence

Maupin remains a great storyteller, a magnificently unrepentant liberal, and a wise, witty observer of the differences which make us human

A creepy tale….set in a country house awash with secrets and strange happenings

She takes relish in recreating a familiar Edwardian landscape, peopled by eligible cads and imperious dowagers... Jones’s highly combustible period piece makes the dramas at Downton look like a stroll in the park

Darkly humorous, quirky and engrossing, this is a ghostly tale full of twists and turns

What a delicious read! Like something written by a wicked Jane Austen, here is love and error in a ramshackle manor house complete with railway survivors, a birthday party and a pony. I was completely captivated by its madcap nature and then, utterly unprepared for the strange fruit that the story became. Passing like a spring fever, here is a fairy tale that stays with you long after it is gone. I couldn't put it down

The Uninvited Guests is at once a shimmering comedy of manners and disturbing commentary on class. It is so well-written, so intricately plotted, that every page delivers some new astonishment. It is a brilliant novel

What opens as an amusing Edwardian country house tale soon becomes a sinister tragi-comedy of errors, in which the dark underbelly of human nature is revealed in true Shakespearean fashion. Sadie Jones is a most talented and imaginative storyteller, and The Uninvited Guests is a very clever novel

I will be surprised if I read anything stranger this year but I can’t help admiring Jones’s whimsical invention and the quality of her writing

A modern Mitford saga

Award-winning Sadie Jones' third novel is her best yet. Hugely enjoyable with a superb, supernatural twist

Cooly playful...the luscious prose is precisely steered

An intelligent and poignant reflection on death and loss… a fabulous read

Sadie Jones…enters new literary territory with a whimsical Edwardian farce that takes its lead from the darker offerings of Saki and JB Priestley...The novel's denouement is satisfyingly outlandish

With elegant ease, Jones spins a good old-fashioned comedy of manners

Andrew Motion brings lyricism but, more importantly, rollicking adventure to this sequel to Treasure Island