We are so lucky to have Anna Quindlen in our literary lives. With her big heart and her amazing humanity she reminds us all of our blessings

Qualities and shades of love are this writer's strong suit, and she has the unusual talent for writing about them with so much truth and heart that one is carried away on a tidal wave of involvement and concern.

Intelligence, clarity and heartrending directness

The honest of her storytelling is exemplary.

Quindlen writes with power and grace.

Relationships and family life are captured by Anna Quindlen in a beautiful, intelligent way.

An intelligent, highly entertaining novel laced with acute perceptions about the nature of day-to-day family life

Tender, taut, full of insight, yet with a darkness at its centre

Excellently done; the minutiae of domestic landscapes, the lunatic irrationality of family quarrels, the torments of sibling rivalry

Funny, heart-hammering, wise...superb entertainment

A terrific writer... She's changed my perception on life

A classic of contemporary Americana... variously funny and horrifying and finally, quietly, terribly moving

A book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read

A novelist who knows what a proper story is . . . [Tyler is] not only a good and artful writer, but a wise one as well

In her ninth novel she has arrived at a new level of power