Flagg is a writer of great warmth and wisdom... A richly imagined family saga

More heart than a shopful of Valentine cards and some absolutely wonderful characters... A warm, funny riff on family and identity

Wonderfully entertaining

Good fun... Southern manners, indomitable broads, smelling salts and rip-roaring adventure

A wonderfully warm and moving read

Overwhelmingly heart-warming. [Flagg’s] talent for storytelling radiates from the page, along with her ability to create quirky characters who are both immensely entertaining and reassuringly human. A thoroughly enjoyable tale of girl power

A light-hearted and humorous read… Fans of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Café will also surely be delighted by Flagg’s depiction of small-town southern America.

[Kushner's] cleverly counterposed registers and nuanced explanation of the way we make and remake ourselves elevates her book beyond the standard historical romp

Detail-packed prose

Deeply evocative... A fascinating and vividly detailed portrait of the country

An intriguing, multifaceted portrait of a society in flux

Massively compelling… Tough yet tender writing that throbs with history, nostalgia and love

It begs for a big-screen adaptation

Telex from Cuba is a wonderful debut and essential reading for those who wish to follow the career of one of the best new writers of our generation

[Telex From Cuba] proves that this American author is a superstar of the future

An epic, almost cinematic sweep of a vanished time and place

A pure treat from the cover to the very last page

Mutli-layered and absorbing... Kushner's style is sure and sharp, studded with illuminating images... Kushner has fashioned a story that will linger like a whiff of decadent Colony perfume

Fresh and compelling. Kushner takes us to a place and time we've seldom visited before

A stunner of a novel... A fluid, eye-opening symphony of a book

With its sharp detail and precisely drawn characters, Telex from Cuba offers a compelling look at a paradise corrupted

Telex from Cuba elegantly weaves together a gripping story of individuals and their lives leading up to one of the most notorious revolutions of the twentieth century

A dazzling debut… Wickedly funny.

This dazzling firework of a debut novel is a reminder of how inventive and original historical fiction can be.

Eyre pulls off a notable trick in Viper Wine, not just by reconstructing her chosen period but rendering it permeable to intrusions from other ages… Playful moments…are made all the more striking by being woven unannounced into a meticulously luscious fantasia on a theme of English high life in the 1630s.

The horrors of the beauty industry are taken apart with feline wit and the book will make you purr with pleasure.

The most richly fruited post-modern novel since Jeanette Winterson’s Sexing the Cherrys

A bold, impressive debut

As a debut novel, it is truly dazzling and Hermione Eyre has proved herself an author well worth watching out for

Profoundly moving