Sharp, funny and stylishly assured. Hugely enjoyable

The funniest book of the year

Full of loveable eccentrics and sly social commentary

'Mature and impressive ... a poignant comedy'

Readers of this comedy of manners are in for a treat...Mahajan, with supreme self-assurance, fashions a subtle, cutting take on modern India

One of the best comic novels I've read in years

Sijie has produced another cunning literary confection, blending history, romance, a long-lost manuscript and the magic of the Orient... Sijie can still draw readers into his elegant web

Dignified and scholarly.

Lose yourself in a good old bonk-buster... there's something for all tastes

You just know it's going to be a tongue-in-cheek masterpiece... high class romping and underhanded business. Think Desperate Housewives meets posh totty

Jo Carnegie... will make even the rudest of readers blush with her saucy bonkbuster of a debut novel

So fluid, the pages turn themselves

Irresistible comfort read

It would be a hard heart indeed that remained unmoved . . . the tender feelings that Noble engenders in her readers are to be cherished

Tissues are essential. You'll ricochet between delicately watering eyes at the romance of it all and howling sobs at the unbearable tenderness

Stories, generations and nationalities collide in what is an entertaining and superior novel