Will make you laugh out loud one minute and wipe away a rogue tear the next

Moriarty's Emma has the wit of Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, mixed with the Murphy's Law luck of Bridget Jones

Very funny, with a cast of wonderful supporting characters and an unpredictable ending. Marian Keyes, you have some competition

The pace is fast and furious ... a real page-turner

Honest and funny

Lots of tears and even more laughs ... a confident debut

Funny - side-splittingly so, which is a difficult balance to strike considering the weight of the subject matter

Mix Bridget Jones with Charlotte from Sex and the City and you've got Emma, the charming heroine of The Baby Trail, and a funny, feisty guide through the realities and hilarities of twenty-first century baby-making. A terrific read ...

Full of Chippendale-style hidden compartments...her narrative is absolutely enchanting'

'An emotionally-wrought novel, in turn lyrical and violent, fable-like and gutsy, in which many of its characters are on a quest to find out who they really are'

'A claustrophobically tense novel, Wide Eyed combines Nicoll's profound love of the Scottish landscape and its people with a journalist's eye for topicality...a writer who intends to become as prominent a part of the literary landscape as the cliffs and mountains from which he draws his inspiration'