Warm and witty

Pacy, entertaining

Take this book on holiday and you’ll come home bursting with exciting plans to shake up your life

The leading comic romantic novelist of her generation

This is one to gobble up in a single sitting

Hugely enjoyable

A witty novel about love

Timely, insightful, and a book to touch every parent's heart

I'm a huge fan. Wodehouse writes proper jokes.

To dive into a Wodehouse novel is to swim in some of the most elegantly turned phrases in the English language.

Ogawa is original, elegant, very disturbing. I admire any writer who dares to work on this uneasy territory - we're on the edge of the unspeakable. The stories seem to penetrate right to the heart of the world, and find it a cold and eerie place. Her spare technique is very skilled. Every word is put to work. She sets up a small vibration, a disturbance, which begins quietly and generates wider and wider ripples of unease. There are no narrative tricks, but the stories generate a surprising amount of tension. You feel as if you've touched an icy hand

Ogawa's tales possess a gnawing, erotic edge

Yoko Ogawa is able to give expression to the most subtle workings of human psychology in prose that is gentle yet penetrating.

Each well narrated and haunting novella, about love, obsession and dark humour, has an unpredictable twist of viciousness coupled with compassion