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'This is not just another Gone Girl. It's human and gritty and blunt. It's her better-looking, more sarcastic cousin.'
- On The Grown Up
'It was a harrowing and heart-breaking understanding and realisation of what transgendered people face, not just in the early 1900s but a realisation that also translates into current issues surrounding gender.
It's a delicate novel that feels papery and light and careful as though if you breath on it it will disintegrate into hundreds of tiny pieces because you feel at any moment someone's heart might break.'
- On The Danish Girl
'The book was like a rollercoaster throwing you from one red herring to another. Just when you think you've managed to grasp who it could be it completely jetisons you off course which, for me, is the sign of a good story. Plot is essential and a good plot is hard to comeby. With this book, you don't stand a chance. Your neck aches afterwards with the thrill, but it's a good thing. You don't mind. You feel satisfied. It's an easy pleasurable read. You don't come away feeling like a soggy, deflated balloon'
- On The Loving Husband
'This book is a drug and it will ruin you'
- On Girls on Fire
'It was syntactic-drooling genius, turns of phrase completely turned on their pretty little heads. She kept the realistic tone of a young teenage girl's voice alongside the maturity of someone older who wants to read the book in their own frame of mind. It was a colourful and fruitful blend of gorgeous satsuma segments of mismatched but compelling phrases. My eyes sucked on each one, indulging in them, envying them, wishing I could write as well as her.'
- On The Girls by Emma Cline