Here is more than fine writing; here is what, added to fine writing, makes a book come immediately, intensely and brilliantly alive...a masterpiece

The literary discovery of the year... It's as brilliantly nuanced as Updike's Rabbit sequence, and as sad as anything by Fitzgerald

I hand out copies of Revolutionary Road to anyone who will take them...one of the most moving and exact portraits of suburbia in all of American literature

The Great Gatsby of my time... One of the best books by a member of my generation

The best novel ever written about the death of the American dream

Brilliantly written...angry, grieving, witty, acute...compellingly and convincingly rendered

Utterly tragic and compelling. It's one of the greatest modern American novels

Philip Roth’s American Pastoral is one of those books you know is going to change you in some profound way shortly after you start reading it and it did for me. I read it last summer and nothing has quite surpassed it for me since. A very painful read.

[American Pastoral] is gorgeously written with passages of breathtaking beauty filled with wisdom and pathos

A simple beautiful ending to a deeply sombre book

There is enough plot for several novels here (enough sex for dozens), all vividly conveyed in the author's excitable style... Her many fans will not be disappointed

Harris does it again with this brilliantly told tale.

Voluptuous helpings of magic, mystery, love and, of course, mouthwatering discriptions of her favourite chocolates, combine to make a rich, satisfying story that should keep you riveted to your sun lounger page after page

The Lollipop Shoes is a sensory fantasy, Harris writes with an original and satisfying poetic flair.

...the magic still enchants

...a sumptuous treat.

...a sensory fantasy, Harris writes with an original and satisfying poetic flair. Harris is a delicious treat.

This novel has the richness of the best quality dark chocolate.

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