«LOVE it! Instant classic - funny, wise, touching, entirely delightful»

Marian Keyes

«A new Nina Stibbe?! Best day ever»

Emma Healey

«The funniest new writer to arrive in years»

Andrew O’Hagan

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

The i

«There is a laugh out loud moment in every chapter. Paradise Lodge brilliantly captures the internal panic of a teenager»

Kathy Burke

«There is never a dull moment in this lively, sensitive, roaringly funny tale»

Daily Express

«A touch of Holden Caulfield in 1970s Leicestershire... 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

«Stibbe looks at another chapter of her life through the prism of her trademark deadpan, acutely observed humour»

Stylist

«Irreverent, warm and hugely entertaining»

Daily Mail

«Winsomely naïve yet confident»

Sunday Times

«Stibbe is a terrific writer with a gift for sharp dialogue»

Evening Standard

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

Good Housekeeping

«Stibbe is herself becoming a worthy successor to Pym, 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

«Witty and thoroughly chortle inducing»

The Lady

«A dollop of nostalgia and very British humour»

Glamour

«Warm, funny story»

Elle