A new literary heroine ... a wonderfully drawn character, endearing and shocking in equal measure

Covers painful ground, but it is a gentle book ... Matilda lingers in the memory

An enchanting yet perturbing tale

Told through Matilda's endearingly innocent and canny eyes ... kind and unflinching

Utterly convincing ... the dark atmosphere is relieved only by Matilda's open-hearted spirit

[Maupin] is the perfect chronicler of the moral, political, sexual and social fluxes of the world as we have lived and known them... Not only is all human life here but a hell of a lot besides that you'd never imagine

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

Fab and funny ... Anyone with a sister will be nodding their head the whole way through

Anna Maxted tells a tale of sibling rivalry with wit and emotion

Warm, poignant and very funny

Hugely funny. Maxted writes beautifully

This modern day mythical fantasy is Anne Rice on an epic scale, a hugely imagined world. A chiller thriller from cold of Russia, this one's been selling like hot cakes around the world