One of the great classics of contemporary European literature.

... a story that Carmen Laforet narrates in prose both exalted and icy, in which what is unspoken is more important than what is said, keeping the reader of the novel submerged in indescribable anguish from beginning to end

Read today, Nada surprises us with its modernity. By its absolute lack of sentimentality, in spite of the atrocities that it relates. By its exact style, clean, sharp as a crystal, and at the same time full of expressive force and poetic originality.

A masterly, original novel, minutely and faithfully observed, with psychological aspects that make you think and feel

One of the best novels of the twentieth century.

Alison Lurie's tragi-comedy of love and mortality is set in tropical Key West where anything goes, and ending up can mean starting again. This is entertainment of the very classiest kind

The world’s most enjoyable author

Perfect timing for these smart re-issues of Alison Lurie's novels, which I am re-reading with enormous delight and greed. If you're new to them, lucky you: marvellously astute comedies of social, moral and sexual manners, their witty exuberance is nothing short of inspirational.