Pungent with life, with wit, love yearning and grief, <i>The Travelling Hornplayer </i>is Barbara Trapido’s most entertaining and powerful novel to date. Her fans might be forgiven for thinking this writer couldn't get any better. She just has
GUARDIAN
Murdochian entertainment: a tragicomedy of errors. Trapido ... races along with a kind of nervy glamour
NEW YORKER
This woman is brilliant. She deserves to be up there, topping the bestseller lists and winning all the prizes. And she actually makes you <i>laugh</i> … I enjoyed every page of this book, which is so shimmering with wit, hectic energy and crazy convolutions of plots that I eneded up in a state of sublime, satiated exhaustion
DAILY MAIL
Sprinkled with magic
SUNDAY TIMES
An entrancing, quirky confection packed with such a rich mixture of fun and pathos that readers may need to pause occasionally, if only draw emotional breath … She has the mind-teasing skills of a crime-writer combined with a sense of humour as dry as a Martini
TELEGRAPH
Witty ... moving ... clever, warm-hearted
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
A funny, cunning and surprisingly sexy novel, which moved at least this reader to both tears and laughter
SUNDAY TIMES
The brilliant [Trapido] ... is one of the better-kept secrets of contemporary letters ... [She] is a great novelist; sooner or later the whole reading world will know it
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Audacious, energetic and dazzing … The vividness, and the immediately engaging style, is as sure as ever, and the Dickensian swiftness with which she can draw a character is full of charm … There aren’t many novelists whose stories one doesn’t want to end, but Barbara Trapido is one of them
- PHILIP HENSHER, MAIL ON SUNDAY
Reading Barbara Trapido is sheer pleasure. Afterwards, I went out and bought everything else she has written - and am only disappointed I didn't do it earlier
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY