This delightful fable shows him at the height of his powers

John Cheever is an enchanted realist, and his voice, in his luminous short stories and in incomparable novels like Bullet Park and Falconer, is as rich and distinctive as any of the leading voices of postwar American literature

This curious novella is Cheever's wry pastoral fable about the state of modern America

Sheer pleasure...his prose is charged like Scott Fitzgerald's

John Cheever understood fallibility and that made for the greatness in his writing

Cheever is a pleasure to read

The kind of book you fall in love with - a grown-up novel that is hilarious, heartbreaking and brimming with the bitter-sweet tang of all our lives

Pearson...never hides her intelligence or apologises for her seriousness of purpose

A funny, heartbreaking mirror of the daily lives of mothers

Brutally witty

Searing comedy

If you could buy stock in a book, I would stake all my savings on the success of I Don't Know How She Does It. Here at last is the definitive social comedy of working motherhood

Pearson writes with instinctive comedy

A book that made me howl with laughter

Here at last is the definitive social comedy of working motherhood

Funny, fast and full of nail-on-the-head observations

The writing is sharp, funny and cleverly observant of the small details - funny, intelligent and insightful

Extremely funny

Sparkling black comedy

Pearson is a hilarious author who captures the guilt and the exhaustion of the working mother's life perfectly

It's the incisive details and Pearson's vivid writing that propel the story

Smart book...great fun

Pearson is insightful, witty and full of fun

Wonderfully warm, witty and intelligent

A Bible for the working woman

Her social observation is unerringly accurate...so beautifully written that it brought tears to my eyes, as well as a wry smile

Pearson...to write a novel...that has already sold a gazillion copies and is going to become a film. Hats off to you, madam!

She will...make you laugh

Pearson...has made it all fresh again

Entertaining, compulsively readable, and brilliantly written

Hilarious and...poignant

This terrific novel is alternately hilarious and sad

It may change your life

Pearson is a very witty and moving writer. Her prose is spare and skilful...waspish truisms and spot-on social observations

Intelligent, witty and of-the-moment, it mixes sassy, brittle perceptions with barefaced sentimentality

Brilliantly captures and defines the mood of the moment...sparkling wit and razor sharp insights

Sharply observed and frequently funny