A very good novel indeed - the relationship between mother and daughter is a triumph. This novel deserves to be bought, read and kept.

One True Thing is so uncompromising in its portrait of life and death, so honest in its rendering of love and loss, that it is simply impossible to forget.

Quindlen's extraordinary moving novel is about family responsibilities, compassion, and growing up.

Not a word or an emotion is out of place

...a brave and beautiful book.

Imbued with heartbreak, grace and humour, this novel made me walk taller for days.

One True Thing is a book about the very nature of love... and insight into the workings of the heart is what Anna Quindlen is so good at

Witty, profound... exhilarating

Fiercely compassionate and frank... conveys a world so out of kilter and so like ours that its readers are likely to feel both exhilarated and unnerved by its accuracy.

Provocative... we leave One True Thing stimulated and challenged, more thoughtful than when we began.