A dazzling urban satire of modern human relations? An ironic, tragic insight into the demise of the nuclear family? Or the confused ramblings of a pissed thirty-something? "A brilliant evocation of life as a single girl in a certain time... reads like Anita Loos out of Jane Austen, and any woman who has ever had a job, a relationship or indeed a mother will read it and roar" (The Times). "I cannot recommend a book more joyfully… Hilariously funny, miraculously observed, endlessly touching" (Daily Telegraph). "Wild comedy… observed with merciless, flamboyant wit. A gloriously funny book" (Sunday Times).