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"This book is without a scrap of sentimentality but provokes a deep emotional response: not from poignancy but in awe at the precision with which Riley records her grief...."

"This is a well-researched, serious, empathetic, deeply human book...."

"A particular kind of modern American epic..."

"Clarke provides enough gossip to satisfy those curious about Nicky Clarke’s glitzy life, but her memoir is also a slice of social history. ..."

"Fuller’s loving tribute to her father is written with tenderness and wit, yet some griefs are ineffable..."

"At every turn, [Hammond's] witty precision deepens the narrative’s impact. He did not choose his subject, MND chose him. He is a real writer and real writers have to write...."

"an indelibly honest chronicle of conflicting emotions..."

"Barnett’s contribution to period prose is as bracing as you’d expect from this fearless BBC broadcaster...."

"Morgan’s exploration of the chemicals that from puberty yank us like a puppeteer’s strings is a personal yet scientific, subtle and often lyrical work..."

"There isn’t another book like this: it stands out among the grey...."

"luminous in outlining a young woman’s struggle..."

"This smooth, sexy and sharply hilarious read is a million times better than very nice —it’s totally fabulous..."

"engaging and readable..."

"poetic and at times whimsical..."

"Sharp, Sally Rooney-style insights into female friendship..."

"the eccentric story of his wanderings..."

"a genuinely useful book..."

"Miscarriage and its complex, often unacknowledged effects..."

"Her prose style is elegant, witty, self-lacerating, and she draws the characters of her household with the sharp eye of a novelist..."