<b>The one problem with reviewing Stibbe is that I just want to quote entire pages: it's all so brilliant.</b> She captures exactly what it's like to be a teenager, with all its contradictions, confusions, anxieties and ambitions.

The i

There is a <b>laugh out loud</b> moment in every chapter. <i>Paradise Lodge</i> brilliantly captures the internal panic of a teenager

- Kathy Burke,

<b>A touch of Holden Caulfield in 1970s Leicestershire... </b>I wouldn't mind fetching up at Paradise Lodge when my time comes: at least we'd all share a laugh, a hug and a terrible cup of tea before the dying of the light.

- Lee Langley, Spectator

<b>There is never a dull moment in this lively, sensitive, roaringly funny tale</b>

Daily Express

Stibbe looks at another chapter of her life through the prism of <b>her trademark deadpan, acutely observed humour</b>

Stylist

<b>Irreverent, warm and hugely entertaining</b>

Daily Mail

The whole book surprises and impresses... <b>I'm not surprised to see that Stibbe's writing has been compared to Jane Austen's</b>

- Emma Healey, Guardian

Stibbe is <b>a terrific writer with a gift for sharp dialogue</b>

Evening Standard

Laugh-out-loud funny and full of spot-on 1970s details

Good Housekeeping

<b>Stibbe is herself becoming a worthy successor to Pym, </b>that peerless chronicler of the melancholy pleasures and small struggles of 20th-century English life on the sort of days when, as Lizzie puts it, "there was nothing for lunch except ginger cake and tins of marrowfat peas

Financial Times

<b>Winsomely naïve yet confident</b>

Sunday Times

<b>Witty and thoroughly chortle inducing</b>

The Lady

<b>A dollop of nostalgia and very British humour</b>

Glamour

<b>Warm, funny story</b>

Elle