'Has the energy of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the inventiveness of Alice in Wonderland...It has also an intelligent wit and a truly original grim and comic grasp of the nature of things'

'Our best comic novelist'

I'm addicted to Terry Pratchett'

Pop is as sexy, genial, generous, and boozy as ever. Ma is a worthy match for him in all these qualities

A pulsing comedy of country manners. Just about perfick

Hilarious

Very racy, earthy. Rabelaisian

Jean Plaidy conveys the texture of various patches of the past with such rich complexity

Intelligent chick-lit ... This laugh-out-loud debut will captivate readers

Brilliantly funny in its early chapters, but also very wise, the virtuosic irony turns to bitterness as a tragic story develops. Tesich died just after completing this marvellous, heart-felt valediction.

A sad novel with a jaunty, upbeat tone that disguises the tragedy of Tesich's magnetic characters

A feisty read you won't want to put down

A must-read for empty nesters ... this is Trollope at her most poignant