An astonishing novel: ambitious, pithy, beautifully written and - above all - brave enough to tackle the great, public issues of our century without pity, prurience or maudlin sentiment

A potent and ambitious fiction, a joy to read, and perhaps its authors best work to date

Phillips is a cool stylist whose intricately structured work builds with a slow-burning, emotional power, and here is some of his finest writing to date

An extraordinarily perceptive and intelligent novel, and a haunting one

Intimate and epic, compulsively readable

A big, ambitious book...carefully structured, intelligently developed

This is Morrison breaking free: being populist and literary, simultaneously, and showing in the process that he can do something entirely different

A satisfying chunky novel set mainly during New Labour's first government

An enthralling novel of the way we live now in Blair's Britain... a marvellous account-taking of our hopes, lifestyles careers and even souls in an age where communication has never been easier, but to find someone who'll listen has never been harder

An accessible romp, ripe for the summer market

A scintillating read

A work that is often very funny, constantly vigorous, always intelligent and enjoyable

Sublime comic genius

A triumph

Top marks. Fantastic

Lovely

Moving and intelligent

Magnetic, unpretentious and bursting with one-liners

Jewell's readability and emotional intelligence make her the cream of pop fiction

Fans of chick-lit will understand when I say that this is a book you simply disappear into