'Not until you put the book down do you realize how chilling is the image of ourselves in Kosinski's mirror...It will survive as a seminal work' 

'Chance, a fabulous creature of our age'

'Being There is a reverse parable, highly polished and patterned to the last twitch of the nerves'

'A tantalizing knuckle ball of a book delivered with perfectly timed satirical hops and metaphysical flutters'

'Extremely well written. Under the circumstances, I can only urge as many people as possible to rush out and buy it'

A charm both of poetry and of strangeness... It is absorbing, a book one will re-read

Hilton (1900-1954) is part of the vast company of largely forgotten good authors... He produced a small handful of excellent popular novels - Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Random Harvest - but nothing more enduring than the one that gave us Shangri-La: Lost Horizon

The word [Shangri-La] has become part of the English language, the name of retirement bungalows from Devon to Durban; of hotels and boarding houses promising rest and seclusion in every continent

An ironic anti-novel about the novel: it poses serious questions about the form’s limitations in being able to capture the protean reality of memory and identity but also argues for its continuing relevance (taking its cue from writers like Barthes, Perec and Queneau who appear in its pages) as a post-modernist game of ideas, a thought-provoking jeu d’esprit.

I just loved it. Lethally funny and so clever.

I ADORED it. It's the most fun I've had with a book in a long time, and I love how she writes - so many dazzling sentences and phrases.

Sparkling savage and remarkably sexy.

A wickedly funny, biting satire of Notting Hill's basement-digging class. My absolute guiltiest read this summer.

The Jane Austen of W11

An addictively funny read about the lives of the rich and richer. Four stars

Smart, pacy, and hysterically funny

This provocative debut explores whether monogamy is all it’s cracked up to be

Witty, sparkling and a dissection of monogamy and happiness... Entertaining

Here is a heroine who scores a solid ten on the sass-o-meter, and she made the whole reading experience a hoot… Guilt-free fun with this deliciously rampant romp.