Hilarious [and] sharply intelligent ... she is one of the most astute social commentators hitting a keyboard today ... guaranteed to brighten up anyone's life

As insightful and every bit as funny as her last book, but with broader range

She is a brilliant, brilliant writer

Properly funny, naughty and admirably no-nonsense, it’s every bit as brilliant as you’d expect

I adore, admire and am addicted to Caitlin Moran's writing

This book is an incredible invention, and like all great inventions, you'll wonder how you ever managed without it

A Little, Aloud is wonderful...a luscious, challenging enticement to read and hear and share the love of doing both. We don't read with the eye only. Until we hear literature we don't possess it. This anthology is more than a collection of good writing, it wakens the ear to what good writing is

There's no doubt that reading aloud together about other's lives makes it possible to think and talk about our own in new ways... All the better if what is read is gracefully and perceptively written ... To bring together, as this anthology does, pieces that lend themselves to reading aloud, the editors have made a most generous and welcome contribution

The Reader Organisation is doing something no one else is doing on a such a scale and in such an inventive and thoughtful way: bringing books to people and people to books in a way that will change their lives for the better

Reading aloud you give a voice - your voice - to the text on the page. You bring the page to life. And being read to - what an abundantly enriching pleasure that is! All those other lives entering your own.

An interesting reminder of how we all bring our very different experiences into reading literature, and contribute in a mysterious readerly way to its great richness of meaning...a salutary reminder of its power of comfort and healing

This is the best cause in the world