Touching...a deft, sweet, and often comic novel.

Entertaining...flawless dialogue...reading it is like eavesdropping on an intimate female chat

Huberman has a light touch, but she handles well the realities of big themes like marital breakdown, defeated ambition

Fun, bubbly, gutsy and lively

Poignant and laugh-out-loud funny . . . proof not just that Huberman can write, but that she can do so with wit, insight and charm

Spirited and sisterly . . . like Jane Austen on ecstasy

A funny romantic comedy - a bit like Bridget Jones on Viagra

She can really write . . . a deserved No 1

Reinhardt is a fine and subtle psychologist . . . with a keen eye for the perverse ways in which capitalism exploits all levels of society and leaves behind smoking ruins. Anyone who begins this book will not quickly put it down

An unsettling and challenging read.

A disturbing and elusive novel about manipulation and desperate friendship.

Nadzam has a crisp, fluid writing style, and her dialogue is reminiscent of Sam Shepard's . . . it's a fine first effort: storytelling as accomplished as it is unsettling.