A fascinating comic creation

It is a funny and inventive book and Turner manages to fence dazzlingly with stereotypes and sharp home truths while making her mordant observations part of a far bigger picture

This is an original first novel, cruel and incisive

This is a very clever, subtle novel, that in its quiet way polishes the surface of things so that we see them, for a while, as if for the first time

A highly amusing and pretty convincing satire of the newspaper industry

Seriousness and farce are perfectly balanced in an elegant, thoughtful whole

Turner, a writer and journalist herself, faithfully portrays the dynamics of a media environment, often to comic effect

This wry, teasing novel should appeal to hacks and Hegel fans everywhere

All of [the characters] are exquisitely drawn, satirically yet with compassion... Her style is so considered and condensed it is sometimes as beautiful as blank verse... Jenny Turner is a gifted novelist and this novel, slender but never slight, leaves you wanting more

[A] smartly-written novel...the writing remains fresh and persuasive

Neill bucks the chick-lit trend with prose that's clever and endearing, and frazzled parents will love the way she nails the sticky, hair-pulling mania of domestic life

A deftly executed domestic comedy

Hilarious . . . Plays with the chaos and comedy of 30-something metropolitan maternity and brings it to an unexpectedly moving conclusion