Margaret Forster has always had the enviable gift of making her characters spring to life, and both Isa and May do just that
- Allan Massie, The Scotsman
A deliciously observed, dilemma-and-drama-packed read
- Helen Brown, Daily Mail
A compelling story, sometimes funny, sometimes painfully sad... All family life is here, messy, insistent and, as the author convincingly shows, as essential as breathing
- Penny Perrick, Sunday Times
A sensitive and intelligent novel with passages of beautifully modulated pathos, while being in part, hugely funny
- Matthew Dennison, The Times
[Forster] has written so brilliantly about female relationships...she can encapsulate a whole scene in a single sentence... [A] whole rich, fascinating novel
- Kate Saunders, Literary Review