This moving debut unpicks the secret selves of Maggie and Frank to reveal the tragic miscommunications of their broken family. It’s a pleasure to read such a stylish and confident new voice

Heart-breaking secrets tenderly evoked with intelligence and depth. Maggie and Frank are unforgettable characters

An unforgettable love story with a mystery that had me captivated until the last, heart-wrenching page. It deserves to be huge

The premise alone had me, but the book itself is just heartrendingly lovely. It’s beautiful, so moving and clever. I truly adored it

In her tremendously moving debut, a novel that pulses with emotional tension, Abbie Greaves masterfully unpicks a history of ordinary lives facing extraordinary challenges. I found it impossible to look away from the relationship at the heart of this novel.

A remarkable debut which doesn’t go where you expect it to go. I very much look forward to seeing what she writes next

An original and moving debut from a talented new voice

Such stunning prose, and such insight for a debut author… I was bowled over by Abbie’s writing

A tender, heartfelt portrayal of a long marriage with all its secrets. Cleverly structured and beautifully written, this novel celebrates love, hope - and the importance of finding the right words

Promises a twisting plot that will reveal hidden secrets and unspoken events

Beautifully written in Greaves’ unique voice, we slowly begin to learn what bought them to this point and how the complexities of life play out in a marriage – and indeed family. Poignant, heart-breaking and insightful, it’s a skilled debut

Greaves’s insightful account of a long marriage kept us gripped till the very last page

The Silent Treatment is an empathetic, beautifully written exploration of relationships and family dynamics that will resonate with fans of Jojo Moyes, David Nicholls and Gail Honeyman.

This is an extraordinarily tense yet tender portrait of a marriage…It’s written with assurance and agonising insight, and the characters of Maggie and Frank will stay with me for a long time

Subtle...hard-hitting...thought-provoking

This is a beautifully written and compelling novel that enthralled us from beginning to end. Frank and Maggie feel so real, and their moving story is simple, but powerfully told

When a debut is praised by the likes of Jojo Moyes, you know it's worth reading…You won't be able to put down this tender and heartbreaking read

It’s a little gem

I adored this powerful, heart-breaking tale that highlights the importance of communicating, no matter how hard that might be

Beautifully written...Poignant, heart-breaking and insightful

I really loved it...It's a very moving book

A must read

It's bittersweet and beautifully written and a heartstring-tugging book about family and grief and marriage and aging. It's a book that stays with you

Witty, tender, big-hearted

A few years ago, Alderton seamlessly taped into our psyches with her 2018 memoir Everything I Know About Love. Now she's back with that same signature wit and blistering honesty in her debut novel, Ghosts

Alderton masterfully exposes the hideous reality of dating in your 30s and how unfair it can be on women who enter the fray in honesty and hope. Hugely emotionally intelligent and often very funny. I adored it

A fascinating, perceptive look at what it means to be a thirty-something woman right here, right now . . . Sharply observed, sometimes tender, sometimes tart, Ghosts will resonate with so many women

Dolly sums up life in your thirties with such wit, warmth and accuracy, you won't want it to end

Alderton balances heartrending emotion with keen-eyed satire, displaying a flair for metaphor and comic set pieces

Funny and insightful, it's a brilliant look at the way we can be haunted by doubts, memories and home

Alderton has a talent for believability, realism and the knack to reach into the pages and pull out the characters onto the sofa next to you. Topical, relevant with a touch of tender humour

As warm-hearted, wise and observant as her bestseller Everything I Know About Love. In this heartfelt, funny and insightful tale, Alderton cleverly explores the way memories, doubts and home can haunt us

Alderton explores the ideas of relationships, friendships, love, memory and the way in which we live in a beautifully written and poignantly powerful novel

Stuffed full of insights and adroit observations . . . a masterpiece of modern manners. Alderton's life-enriching social anthropology will be the antidote for flagging spirits in the next lockdown' Spectator

Achingly relatable. A darkly funny-melancholic novel about the rich variety of relationships in our lives - and the importance of showing up for them

This modern love story has lashings of arch humour and gentle wisdom, and slides down as pleasingly as a slice of cake and a nice cuppa

Explores the ideas of relationships, friendships, love, memory and the way in which we live in a beautifully written and poignantly powerful novel

If you need a good rom-com escape, Dolly Alderton more than delivers in Ghosts. . . it's darker than Everything I Know About Love - but just as fantastically relatable

All Adults Here will make you question your entire childhood

All Adults Here is deliciously funny and infectiously warm - a clever blend of levity and poignant insights. Straub's flair for irony and wit shine, and she puts a fresh (and progressive) spin on the age-old multigenerational family saga

The queen of the summer novel...we have turned to Emma Straub to bring us highly enjoyable, yet still thought-provoking, tales about witty protagonists in the throes of life changes

Straub's novel takes her signature wit upstate, exploring the complexities of small-town life and what it's
like to live as an adult in the same place where you grew up

If you've spent lockdown at home with the family, this one might just ring true for you. A witty, warm and thoroughly entertaining novel. Relatable

It takes rare skill to make everyday family ups and downs so pleasurable to read but Straub brings both a deceptive light touch and a flinty sense of humour to this breezy big-hearted portrait of ordinary people trying to negotiate the landscape of being a grown up. A superior slice of domestic fiction for fans of Anne Tyler and Ann Patchett

Pulsating with perceptive wit . . . entertaining

Great for fans of Liane Moriarty

Whips along with feel-good momentum, driven by warmth and love

Warm, witty, perceptive. Anne Tyler on laughing gas

Written with true warmth and wit

Praise for Emma Straub

It's the beautifully drawn, vibrant characters that make this smart, compelling novel so irresistible

Funny, poignant and beautifully observed

Straub writes beautifully and amusingly . . . hard to beat for sheer charm and gentle wit

Smart and entertaining

Hugely talented . . . intelligent holiday reading

Warm and big-hearted . . . leaves you smiling for days

Straub writes with such verve and sympathetic understanding of her characters . . . Reading this novel has all the pleasures of reading one of Anne Tyler's compelling family portraits

A funny and insightful look at love and relationships

Written with true warmth and wit

A smart, cool sensibility

Lovely, satisfying

Smart and fresh, offering new insights into the lives of people all around us

Thoughtful and hilarious

It would be easy to compare Straub to other masters of the genre like Meg Wolitzer or Jennifer Egan, but she's already a master in her own right

Wise and often hilarious

Readers will devour this witty and warmly satisfying novel

A precise and observant writer whose supple prose carries the story along without a snag. Straub's characters are a quirky and interesting bunch . . . it's a pleasure spending time with them

Devilishly observed

Sprinkled with humour and insight

Straub is consistently excellent

A warm-hearted and wise tale of a family in trouble. Packed full of sharp observations and laugh-out-loud lines

Her writing just gets better and better . . . Grown Ups is funny and clever in the way it tackles addiction and eating disorders and the hurly burly of family life

A sharp satire of family dynamics and the trappings of wealth. It is a delicious thing - light and dark at once, full of acid observations and warmth, and fully attuned to the absurdities of familial life

An entertaining story of family dynamics packed with vibrant characters, humour and empathy

A sharp, wry tale about a seemingly happy family with contemporary problems . . . despite the traumas, you'll whizz through it with a smile on your face

Keyes's captivating 14th novel tackles difficult issues with a sparkling style that makes it impossible to put down

Marian Keyes is the most wonderful writer. She just gets better and better. She is a writer who believes in the best of us. She shows people's foibles but she also shows the love that binds us together in a very real way

Her novels tackle hard subjects with such humour and warmth its impossible not to be drawn in

Another high-definition family comedy. An intoxicating, effervescent and warm look at modern life

A delightful and insightful examination of the modern family

Laughter and tears intertwine, as ever, in the latest from our leading chronicler of the emotional messiness of contemporary life

The strength of this book lies in its relatability factor - I laughed, cried, nodded in recognition and laughed again

Shines a light on the frustrations and gripes of family life, while inviting us to laugh at the petty reality of it all

A book to fall into and while away hours with

Funny, thought-provoking and hitting you right in the feels, Marian Keyes does it again

I loved this complex family drama . . . Keyes nails every character she touches while keeping it all so relevant

Praise for Marian Keyes

Mercilessly funny

Everything this woman touches turns to comic gold

Comic, convincing and true. The warmth and empathy of Keyes's writing shine through this tale of family secrets revealed.

Clever, hilarious, poignant . . . Gloriously funny

Wildly funny, romantic and nearly impossible to put down

Her writing is a lovely mixture of funny and perceptive and bittersweet

Full of brilliantly funny characters, genuine emotion and heaps of charm

Her books are humorous and have the quality of a warm bath

Classic Marian Keyes: a blizzard of wit and wisecracks

Keyes is an international treasure. The ultimate choice for a binge read

When it comes to writing page-turners that put a smile on your face and make you think, Keyes is in a class of her own

Fabulously entertaining. The queen of intelligent women's fiction

Full of darkness and light, this is Keyes at her classic and most brilliant best

Keyes writes about women who are absolutely themselves, even when society tries to insist they are something else

Glorious, life-affirming

Marian's glorious, warm-hearted wit is always guaranteed to make me laugh on the very first page

There is no finer writer than Marian Keyes

She really is unparalleled when it comes to making serious points with the lightest of touches

Hilariously wise

Brutal yet endearing honesty, wonderful humour and astonishing acumen

Keyes writes extremely well about modern women. Candid and deeply felt

Marian Keyes has an unparalleled talent for making you howl with laughter, nod in recognition and think at the same time

Always brilliant - and brilliantly funny

A publishing sensation

There are few fiction writers today with as much verve and sense of independence as Marian Keyes