«An acute and poetic observer of the eternal, universal, rum relationships between men and women»

The Times

«If anyone has better insight into women and their central problem - men - than Margaret Atwood, and can voice them with as much wit, impact and grace, then they haven't started writing yet»

Daily Mail

«Sophisticated, reticent, ornate, stark, supple, stiff, savage or forgiving...they are stories from the prime of life»

Times Literary Supplement

«An outstanding correspondent on the war between the sexes writes as wittily as ever on the hopes and shortcomings of women who bake for poets, sleep with their accountants, attribute their preference for awful men to fearlessness, and don't know how much they scare their own mothers»

Observer