‘I adored Brother of the More Famous Jack. It is redolent of classics like The Constant Nymph with both its true voice and wonderfully sage and sanguine heroine’
Sophie Dahl
‘Brother of the More Famous Jack remains in my mind as a moving, intense, earthy and witty book, both illuminating and extraordinary as a first novel’
The Times
‘A highly promising debut – fast, inventive, and funny’
London Review of Books
‘More Ms Trapido, rapido’
New Statesman
‘A pleasure… full of excellent things, enormously exuberant, carried along for the most part on vivid dialogue for which Ms Trapido has an uncannily perceptive ear’
Evening Standard
‘An unpretentious and very funny book… a complex and highly polished work’
New York Times
‘This is a first novel for Barbara Trapido, but if established writers could get this good on a seventh try, readers would be the richer for it… What a lovely novel – charming, intelligent and a happy ending too. Barbara Trapido, where have you been?’
USA Today
‘Very funny, very English, very sad’
Daily Telegraph
‘Written with quite exceptional assurance and control. Barbara Trapido is a novelist to look out for’
The Scotsman
‘Shines with off-beat charm and sprightly intelligence’
San Francisco Chronicle