Press Reviews

• New York Times

  Beneath the gentle surfaces of her novels is a slow-building comedy, salt wit in a saline drip

• Jilly Cooper

  My favourite writer . . . I pick up her books with joy

• ANNE TYLER

  She is the rarest of treasures; she reminds us of the heartbreaking silliness of everyday life

• RICHARD OSMAN

  I am a huge fan of Barbara Pym

• John Betjeman

  A splendid humorous writer

• Alexander McCall Smith

  A modern Jane Austen

• Shirley Hazzard

  There is a thrill of humanity through all her work