«A tender, unsentimental exploration of the bittersweet joys of lifelong companionship, beautifully capturing the pangs of ageing and the treacheries of time »

Daily Mail

«Full of beauty, pain and joy, I loved Jack & Bet»

Laura Barnett, author of <i>The Versions of Us</i>

«A moving yet unsentimental story about family and love and the secrets we live with»

Paul McVeigh, author of <i>The Good Son</i>

«With mounting tension, it demonstrates why it’s never too late to have your world turned upside down»

Oliver Harris, author of <i>A Shadow of Intelligence</i>

«Seductive and assured, Jack & Bet is a warm, wise and wonderfully defiant exploration of a long marriage and a short-lived experiment in social housing»

Emma Claire Sweeney, author of <i>Owl Song at Dawn</i>

«I read Jack & Bet with enjoyment and heartbreak . . . wins its place in the burgeoning writing that shines a spotlight on the lives of over seventies in Britain»

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, author of <i>The First Woman</i>

«I loved Jack & Bet. Butler writes from Jack, Bet and Marinela's perspectives with such compassion and understanding»

Susan Barker, author of <i>The Incarnations</i>

«A fantastic novel - totally absorbing and full of heart»

Helen Mort, author of <i>No Map Could Show Them</i>