Raking The Ashes

'A fearless novelist . . . also a constantly amusing writer. The result is an unsettling, sometimes angry but always engrossing story'

Independent

'[A] remarkable novel...there is something terrifyingly recognisable in each of the characters that will have readers looking deep inside their souls'

The Observer

'Written with humour and barbed wit'

Good Housekeeping

'Admirably acute observations of the trivialities of domestic life'

The Mail on Sunday

'Displays her familiar cool, unfussy style'

Guardian

'Searing black comedy...a clear-eyed and fearless look at the role of honesty within relationships'

Irish Examiner

'A scandalously good read'

The Scotsman

'So savage and sharp in its insights that it cuts, this is a brilliantly compulsive, forensic dissection of a relationship built on ironies and evasions'

The Times

'Deftly plotted'

Daily Mail

'A very admirable and compelling novel'

Daily Mirror

'Family relationships are rarely analysed with the depth of black humour that Anne Fine can bring to bear'

Yorkshire Evening Post

Brilliant

Closer

An enjoyably black and bracingly unsentimental novel

The Times

Brilliant black comedy

Woman&Home