A beautiful debut that mixes humour with biting social commentary.

Biswas proves a natural writer with a nice turn of phrase.

A comedy of manners ... charmingly told.

One to watch.

This fast paced debut gives us the age-old dilemma of family struggle told in frank funny language by a new name to watch.

A gritty, sharp, social comedy. Like Monica Ali's Brick Lane, but funnier.

A delightful first novel about a young Indian called Mousumi visiting her sophisticated relations in London ... A coming-of-age story with a difference.

Hugely gratifying in the way that only Cooper can be

Triumphantly good

The prospect of Jilly's return, with a novel set in the glamorous international art world and promising "oodles of bad behaviour, intrigue, passion, tears and laughter", will surely cheer all but the most misanthropic

There is enough plot for several novels here (enough sex for dozens), all vividly conveyed in the author's excitable style... Her many fans will not be disappointed

This modern day mythical fantasy is Anne Rice on an epic scale, a hugely imagined world. A chiller thriller from cold of Russia, this one's been selling like hot cakes around the world