From the back cover....
|
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY: Weldon's stories pull no punches. There is always
humour, and (good for forty-somethings to hear) the wry and life-hardened smiles of middle age are often set in contrast to the po-faced enthusiasms and idiocies of youth.'
NEW STATESMAN & SOCIETY `Weldon's marvellous ear for the latest jargon makes her the writer new-age therapists might love to hate.'
SPECTATOR: Sparkling, sharply observing, insights delivered with a light touch that puts us in a good mood, however dark the comedy.'
IRISH INDEPENDENT: Pure Weldonian. Brimming with mischief, heavy with hidden meaning and defiantly modern, they are a parable for our times and times to come.'
SCOTSMAN: Weldon's steely, aphoristic prose spells death to cosy delusions, to liberal, civilised veneers.'
FINANCIAL TIMES: `Weldon is an enthusiastic observer of social trends and the stories are bang up-to-date. What we are being offered here is irony in its purest form.'
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: `Weldon's writing is seductively readable, her magic realism is never pretentious; it is understated and convincing.'
|
|
|
United States | 
United Kingdom | 
Canada