The tale is the more compelling because (Moll) is looking back ruefully on her misadventures in older age, examining her own motives with withering candour

It's still fresh, centuries on. It's raunchy yet humane, brilliantly written yet not at the expense of a fast-paced plot, and it conjures such a vivid picture of its age that it would certainly transport me off the monotony of a desert island.I've always loved Moll herself she's so feisty. All the dreadful things that befall her and she just picks herself up, dusts herself down, rearranges her cleavage and rampages off again.

Bold, beautiful and brilliantly resourceful, Moll was ideally qualified to be the heroine of one of the first English novels... Defoe conveys very forcefully that wit, courage and enterprise are valuable attributes for a woman

Enduringly colourful

The raciest of memoirs

Daniel Defoe's shameless, charming, intelligent and promiscuous adventuress

An absorbing fable of the here-and-now

A call to embrace life

Praise for Liane Moriarty

Every single one of her books is a great read

Staggeringly brilliant, literally unputdownable

Keeps you guessing until the very end - perfect summer read

Moriarty writes vividly, wittily and wickedly

The writing is beautiful: sometimes funny, sometimes sad but always compelling

Like drinking a pink cosmo laced with arsenic . . . a fun, engaging and sometimes disturbing read

Riveting drama packed with suspense and secrets

Wise, honest, beautifully observed. One of the few writers I'll drop anything for

Straight-from-life characters, knife-sharp insight and almost unbearable suspense will have you racing through it

Perfect

A hell of a good book. Funny and scary

A cracking story cleverly told

Fascinating and compassionate