Tremendous fun - an ingenious update of the greatest love story of all time

A modern-day Lizzy and Darcy tale you won't be able to put down

A witty spin on the nation's favourite novel ... with a loveable, contemporary heroine at its heart

Good fun

If you like Philippa Gregory or Barbara Erskine, take a step back in time with Jean Plaidy

'One of the country's most widely read novelists

A novel which, while aiming at popularity, respected its readership and was possessed of a decent level of craft

It is an admirable book and in its best passages is inspired and haunting

Generations of women survive, most movingly, in the wreckage left by total war

Beautifully constructed... Franck has a remarkable ability to capture the nuances of human behaviour,and her subtle depiction of Helene's growing coldness, or "blindness", and the wider blindness of a society heading for disaster, is utterly compelling

Read it and weep

With its intriguing plot and strong characterisation, Julia Franck's novel depicts beautifully both personal and historical tragedies, and gives us a compelling portrait of a remarkable woman in difficult times

A rich, affecting novel

A witch's brew of eerie power and startling novelty

A marvellous elucidation of life ... a story full of craft and full of mystery

Compulsory reading for anyone who has a pig, an aunt - or a sense of humour!

The Wodehouse wit should be registered at Police HQ as a chemical weapon

Witty and effortlessly fluid. His books are laugh-out-loud funny

The funniest writer ever to put words to paper

The greatest comic writer ever

P.G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century

Sublime comic genius

You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour