The Jazz Age chronicler's first great novel

No one has written more elegiacally about America than F. Scott Fitzgerald...a sense of lost time and the irretrievability of the past gave much of his work - indeed, his life - an ineradicable undertone of mourning

If Francis Scott Fitzgerald had not existed, it would have been necessary to invent him. Seldom has there been a character who personified, as well as chronicled, an age with such dexterity and verisimilitude

None was more beautiful, none more damned, than Fitzgerald himself

An outstanding novel ... the emotional power is relentless. A sense of longing courses through the narrative, yet the irony of the title is well served; this is an intelligent, reserved novel, and is all the more moving for the restrained dignity that conveys not only the regrets but also the anger... an allusive, intelligent and solemn work

Sober, reflective, sometimes lyrical, always intelligently probing... remarkably accomplished for a first novel

A probing exploration - now subtle, oblique, now forensic, scalpel-sharp - of the ramifications of a person's experience through the lives and relationships of those he loves. Of the way in which what we do, and witness, echoes through our lives, and the next generation's.

With its themes of memory and remembrance, presence and absence, it is a beguiling story that lingers in the liminal spaces between what is said and unsaid...This is a slender novel, but its dimensions belie how much it packs in...Skibsrud, an acclaimed poet, shows her talent for elegant economy in her slow layering of mood. Densely rich, her novel demands concentrated reading, but the result is often haunting, plumbing both the unreliability of memory and its characters' inner states with emotional immediacy. With its ghosts, its keen awareness of surface tension, and its nimble dips below, The Sentimentalists succeeds in hinting at the truth of a person's life, located somewhere in between the visible and invisible.

A beautiful tribute to a father-daughter relationship.

The writing here is trip-wire taut as the exploration of guilt, family and duty unfold.

Sutton's black comedy is not only a timely reminder of how we were all suckered by the credit boom, but also a gripping read

If you like your stories spoon-fed, this might not be the novel for you. If you can abandon the cutlery, hand sanitiser and table manners - tuck in

A cross between Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho and Martin Amis's Money

Its ace, addictive and enthralling

Blisteringly angry..,begins as a black comedy but gradually turns much darker with the mad-as-hell narrator suspected of murdering his lovers in London

Sutton shows us everything through Freeman's eyes and he pulls it off very well indeed. A horrible character but a compelling narrator

Sutton shows us everything through Freeman's eyes and he pulls it off very well indeed

This darkly comic novel with it's brilliantly acute observations of life in London in the 21st Century completely captures the zeitgeist and raises more than a few laughs.

Gripping and darkly comic tale of 21st-century material greed