A consummate entertainer...It is Maupin's Dickensian gift to be able to render love convincingly

Maupin is a richly gifted comic author

San Francisco is fortunate in having a chronicler as witty and likeable as Armistead Maupin

Like those of Dickens and Wilkie Collins, Armistead Maupin's novels have all appeared originally as serials...it is the strength of this approach, with its fantastic adventures and astonishingly contrived coincidences, that makes these novels charming and compelling

May well be the funniest series of novels currently in progress... Maupin's ear for dialogue is as acute as his feeling for characterisation, and the net result is as engaging a read as you are likely to encounter in many moons

[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