'e~Man oh man, do I love this book! Audacious, imaginative and totally wonderful'e(tm) Karen Joy Fowler 'Smart, funny, charming and profound. Elizabeth McKenzie is clearly some sort of genius'e(tm) Paul Murray 'e~The squirreliest novel I ever read. I enjoyed it completely'e(tm) Ursula K. Le Guin 'e~Raw and weird and hilarious . very entertaining'e(tm) Scarlett Thomas, Guardian 'e~Ambitious, spirited, funny, daring'e(tm) Financial Times 'e~A touching, wildly funny and peculiarly elegant look at the travails of love of all kinds'e(tm) Sunday Express 'e~Utterly charming. A true joy of a book'e(tm) Irish Examiner 'e~Full of life and humour and compassion'e(tm) Times Literary Supplement 'e~Witty and sharp'e(tm) Irish Times 'e~Darkly funny, irrepressibly quirky and very, very hard to put down'e(tm) Sam Baker, The Pool 'e~Quirky and smart. If you loved Karen Joy Fowler'e(tm)s We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, you'e(tm)ll love this'e(tm) Glamour 'e~Wildly brilliant. Razor-sharp, intimate, hilarious and profound.
Every page is a delight'e(tm) Emma Jane Unsworth 'e~Terrifically entertaining . hard to resist'e(tm) Daily Mail 'e~Offbeat, thoughtful, mischievous . McKenzie [has] a pin-sharp eye for the tragic-comic, and for dialogue'e(tm) Herald (Scotland) 'e~McKenzie has a wonderful eye 'e" and a relishing appetite 'e" for the craziness that is everywhere in ordinary life if you know how to look'e(tm) Tessa Hadley 'e~A novel of festive originality'e(tm) The New York Times 'e~Unforgettable. A wild ride that you will not want to miss'e(tm) San Francisco Chronicle 'e~If The Portable Veblen has a flaw, it is that its caricatures are so on the nose as to make the reader hope to flee the human race'e(tm) Boston Globe 'e~Oddball characters and plot turns abound, including talking squirrels and bureaucratic ironies worthy of "Catch-22." But a sober question occupies its core: Do our parents' best intentions do us harm?'e(tm) Minneapolis Star Tribune 'e~Accurately and funnily capture[s] the complexities of modern families . The Corrections meets The Wallcreeper'e(tm) Huffington Post.