Highly entertaining . . . a beguiling, thoroughly enjoyable read

Simply unputdownable

Warm, funny, touching . . . winningly perceptive about human relationships and changing social trends

So simple, so easy to read and yet so sensitive and profound at the same time. This is a world that feels real and one you don't want to leave

Like all Hornby's best work, it is both hugely enjoyable and deceptively artful

Everything Hornby writes is addictively readable and clever, but with Funny Girl he has surpassed himself

Hornby's sunniest novel

Nick Hornby is pretty much always poignant and hilarious

Refreshing and engrossing, dense with revelation. Superb

Written with superb exactness, complex, suspenseful and humane, this novel.reinforces his status as the supreme novelist of his generation

A darkly disturbing novel

A terrifying, yet grimly realistic portrait of near-future America

Thought-provoking, and at times brutal, this thriller will surely be the basis of many discussions about the nature of society and the times we live in

Peyton Marshall is a writer of intelligence and keen observation with a great future. GOODHOUSE is a startling debut. In James, she has created a compelling and convincing hero for the all-too-probable dark times ahead

Very arty, and strangely uplifting

Hilarious, loving and deadly serious

Some pieces of literature, no matter how great an effort you make as a critic, cannot be opened or captured in a way that does justice to the work. That’s how I feel about Helle Helle’s new and unusually precious novel... Most of the sentences are small works of art, containing a whole story in themselves

This Should be Written in the Present Tense is an excellent novel, yet another sleek and nonchalant masterpiece from Helle Helle

Helle Helle has written a captivating novel about Dorte Hansen, who sleepwalks through life, letting chance rule

A beautiful tale examining the processes of life

Eschewing a conventional narrative, this absorbing novel deceptively contains a crackling energy within its understated, artful prose