A compulsive and well-paced story

A really great tale of triumphs and trials that you won't be able to put down

Really good read, very sad at times but this is a story that lingers with you even after the final words

A touching tale to open any heart

A dazzling hall of mirrors... Ferociously ambitious... Illumined by a fizzing passion for the recondite

An astonishingly assured début, funny and serious ... I was delighted

She is . . . a George Eliot of multi-culturalism

[Zadie Smith] is one of the prominent voices of her generation

Britain's finest young author

[Zadie Smith] packs more intelligence, humour and sheer energy into any given scene than anyone else of her generation

[White Teeth] established a model for how to make sense-and art-out of the complexity, diversity and pluck that have defined the beginning of this century

The first publishing sensation of the millennium

White Teeth reflects a new generation

[Zadie Smith] is one of the prominent voices of her generation