A writer of great wit and style-. I've read her books to ragged shreds.

My favourite historical novelist -- stylish, romantic, sharp, and witty. Her sense of period is superb, her heroines are enterprising, and her heroes dashing. I owe her many happy hours.

Wonderful characters, elegant, witty writing, perfect period detail, and rapturously romantic. Georgette Heyer achieves what the rest of us only aspire to.

A darkly, thrilling surprise

Aussie noir is all the rage at the moment and The Ex-Girlfriend is as grand guignol a slice as anyone could wish for

Gripping, dramatic and with twists you won't see coming, this book held me in its spell from the first page. I loved this book

I thought it was fresh, atmospheric, feminist and had me turning the pages into the small hours. A total treat

This cleverly written book by Moriarty sucks you in right from the first page. If you love a gripping read, with twists around the corner, then this is one for your reading list

A fast-paced pulpy psychological thriller with Netflix written all over it

A pacy, gripping thriller, but also full of heart and plenty of laughs for comic relief. Key themes of mental health and the different ways humans control each other and the importance of friendship shine brightly, wrapped in an absorbing, terrifying tale that perfectly captures the zeitgeist

The Ex-Girlfriend drops an oil slick into the cloying honeyedness of a modern love story . . . reads like a film script. Reader beware: all is not what it seems. There are well-laid tracks to be unearthed . . . a slow-burn thriller

A compelling story of love, betrayal, and revenge, The Ex offers enthralling twists and turns . . . The pace was just about perfect, and I finished it very quickly, even for me . . . a gripping domestic thriller I'm happy to recommend

The Ex-Girlfriend by Nicola Moriarty is an unputdownable thriller that will have you choosing "one more chapter" over sleep in a bid to find out how it ends

Will have you turning pages in a blur to find out what happens . . . A fast-paced, pulpy psychological thriller with Netflix written all over it

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I devoured it, loved it and totally escaped into it

Compulsive

Entertaining

Darkly humorous

Dramatic, mysterious and compelling

Accelerates with intensity and sheer originality with every page

Will grab readers and refuse to let go. An author to watch

It kept me guessing to the end

A darkly droll page-turner

It was beautifully crafted and once I had the book open I didn't close it until I had read the last page.

This book touched me to the heart – quite beautiful and exceptionally moving, and one of the very best books I’ve read this year.

When the book finished, I felt an immense sadness that I had to say goodbye to these two people.

I loved the setting and the characters were great, it was a pleasure to read.

Few books ever have that much impact on me and I feel this is something that everyone needs to experience.

A beautiful, lyrical love story, played out with words and paper.

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Gentle, moving, joyous

Full of insight and sympathy. It is also highly absorbing — partly because of Tyler’s evocative style (when Micah considers his past, he is “visited by a kind of translucent scarf of a memory floating down upon him”), but mostly because of the intimacy with which she depicts the workings of Micah’s heart and mind...a quiet revelation

In wonderful prose, Tyler drills deep into a very ordinary life, familiar struggles, and a quiet heroism

Anne Tyler's masterful new novel asks what it might take for an unhappy man to change his life... her longevity means that her work has become a record of a certain kind of America, especially of "the dailiness of women's lives", for the past half century.

A quiet and beautiful story about human relationships, written with intent observation, empathy and humour

A timely reminder of what matters: kindness and love

This gloriously warm novel felt heaven-sent when it appeared in deepest lockdown

A new book from this wonderful writer is always a joy... Tyler packs feeling and insight into every single sentence

I adored Redhead by the Side of the Road... It is so subtle, and so brilliant as are all Tyler's novels... Witty and warm, its only fault was that I wanted it to be twice as long!

Tender and beautifully paced

Compassionate and alert to the complexities in even the most ordinary lives, the book reminds us why, at 79, Tyler is held in such high regard

The qualities that have long won Tyler admiration and affection - wry humour, shrewd perception, characters who leap off the page with authenticity - are in generous supply

You can't go wrong with Anne Tyler. She makes it look easy creating characters that feel so believable, so three-dimensional

Tyler engrosses with the 'and-thenand-then' of domestic detail

I do think the world would probably be a better place if everyone read Anne Tyler . . . She's such a brilliantly empathetic writer - there's no 'them' and 'us' in Tyler's world - and she often writes from the perspective of the kind of people who you would walk past and barely notice in the street . . . Reading Tyler helps people to become better people, and I really fully believe that

Tyler's irresistibly readable 23rd novel follows Micah, a socially inept, OCD-ish IT man whose orderly life is turned upside down by the arrival of a son

Tyler's affectionate and quietly observant novel reveals her deep empathy for the hidden struggles of everyday lives

Another shrewd yet kindly novel about the mysterious business of family life by one of the world's great writers

A charmingly offbeat love story

The narration here is a joy: you will be leaning towards the speaker to catch every nuance of Tyler's gently comediccharacterstudy of the Baltimore bachelor and fix-it man Micah Mortimer