Compulsively readable

One of the best novels of the '90s

[Follow Your Heart] has enormous charm and is packed with a philosophical wisdom we can immediately understand; it is narrated with a beguiling simplicity and intimacy so that the reader appears to have intruded upon a private correspondence

Extremely moving... This is a novel that will sweep you off your feet should you be lucky enough to read it

Beautiful prose…melded with page-turning suspense… I defy anyone to read it without weeping

This is Greene at his raw and powerful best

The Power Tnd The Glory's nameless whisky priest blends seamlessly with his tropical, crooked, anticlerical Mexico. Roman Catholicism is intrinsic to the character and terrain both; Greene's imaginative immersion in both is triumphant

The year's most impressive debut

Warmed by the tender characterisation that has made Jilly Cooper a national treasure.

Just the thing for a wet winter weekend.

Unrivalled joy

To read one of Cooper's books is to escape into an alternative universe in which all is right with the world.

Jilly's descriptions of the glorious Cotswold countryside are some of the most lyrical ever written and her comedies of manners rival Nancy Mitford, if not Jane Austen.

As plots go you can't get more charming than this.

This is definitely the most exciting book that landed on my doormat this year. Cooper is a major genius...the narrative zips along, pierced with her characteristically brilliant ear for dialogue and empathy for human relationships of all kinds. You won't be able to put it down.

A rollicking fantasy.

I loved it.

An exciting, revealing and touching story

The novel's interest (or lack thereof) lies mainly in its stubborn refusal of anything resembling a narrative payoff...I loved it, right down to the prose, which, unspooling in a vaguely menacing present-continuous, sounds like screenplay instructions to a set designer

A dazzlingly agile novel about the interconnectedness of things

Entertaining as well as ambitious

McCarthy's descriptions of nature and of the everyday details of the era are vivid, surprising and true. And while the writing is often beautiful and ornate, the story has a bracing, Beckett-like severity