Prep

The OC meets Donna Tartt's The Secret History with flashes of Clueless... Sittenfeld's strength is in making the experience feel universal...Everyone will wince with recognition at the horror of being a teenager. It's great to relive it all, now that it is happening to someone else.

Observer

Straightforward, serious, funny...There is so much that is right about this book. Sittenfeld captures the hothouse atmosphere of boarding-school, the way you see even people you don't like in their underwear...Mostly, however, it's Lee's voice that makes all this worthwhile.

London Review of Books

Curtis Sittenfeld shares with Salinger a knack of capturing, in effortless prose, a teenager mindset...It feels important...Most vitally of all, it feels like adolescence.

The Times

You don't have to have attended an elite Massachusetts boarding school to find yourself reliving your adolescence in Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep...Even the Cross Sugarmans (major crush) and Aspeth Montgomerys (long legs, super popular) of this world will cringe with recognition at the book's fine-knit accuracy and detail.

Vogue

Sweet Valley High as written by George Eliot. Sittenfeld is a pin-sharp observer, and in Prep she needles away at class, race and character...Prep will appeal to any age...A highly accomplished novel.

Independent on Sunday

Magnificent

Guardian

A highly accomplished novel

Independent on Sunday

Fresh and vivid...extremely enjoyable

Sunday Times

Sharp, caustic and brilliantly observed

Observer

Sittenfeld's humour and sharp observation deliver a coming-of-age novel you can relate to

Daily Express

Sittenfeld is a master of the phenomenon-novel . . . Set in a boarding school, [Prep] was satirical but also affectionate, and told a genuine coming-of-age story that gave the much-derided figure of the preppy American teenager a new dignity.

Gaby Wood, Telegraph