'Ribald and rich in comic invention'

'A follow-up to the wildyly successful The Virgin Soldiers...an excellent, amusing read'

'Not for maiden aunts - the sex scenes are quite explicit!'

Enough black laughs to keep you turning the pages.

A fantastic debut from real-life PC Mike Thomas...Written with blistering brio and fantastic energy, this shows much promise.

She has a capacity in her novels for noting the little vanities and foibles, the revealing mannerisms and contradictions in human social behaviour, which often reminds one of Austen

If you manage to read only a few good novels a year, make this one of them

An ingenious, touching book

A flawless jewel

Foreign Affairs is probably Alison Lurie’s best novel to date, certainly it is a triumph, and much of its success stems from its accomplished plotting. Lurie has known from the first how to tell a story brilliantly through the consciousness of a woman who in type and circumstance resembles the author herself

The first chapter is one of the most captivating in any recent novel I have read

Lurie weaves a characteristically sharp-eyed, deftly ironic comedy of cultural collisions and collusions that rightly won her comparisons to Henry James and Edith Wharton

I am convinced that Alison Lurie's fiction will long outlast that of many currently more fashionable names. There is no American writer I have read with more constant pleasure and sympathy over the years. Foreign Affairs earns the same shelf as Henry James and Edith Wharton

A brilliant novel - her best I think. The book is a triumph, and not simply of style...Foreign Affairs is witty, acerbic, and sometimes fiendishly clever

Warm, clever and funny