The Adulterants

Perfectly formed... a pin-sharp skewering of a certain type of modern urban thirtysomething male, trapped in a protracted adolescent state. It's one not to be missed

Bookseller

Dark, beautifully wry, and side-splittingly excruciating, The Adulterants is a triumph of voice and vision

Tea Obreht

Blisteringly funny and brimming with caustic charm - a joyous diagnosis of our modern ills that made me laugh out loud even when it was breaking my heart

Paul Murray

A tale of modern manhood, full of malaise, melancholy and wryly funny observations

S Magazine

A sharp satire of contemporary London and the modern urban male

Tatler

A richly illuminating comedy of disappointment, uproarious and mournful, that places Joe Dunthorne triumphantly in the tradition of Evelyn Waugh and (that other Swansea resident) Kingsley Amis. A deft, brilliant, surprising joyride

The Art Desk

Joe Dunthorne's new book is a pleasure - I was very fortunate to get to read his book Submarine early and reading this one was equally thrilling. I owe him a great deal ( but refuse to repay him)

Richard Ayoade

Dunthorne is a superbly economical writer... He is also properly funny. There are several snort-through-your-nose moments. But throughout, the novel's comedy is always balanced by insight and poignancy

Observer

The Adulterants, from its punning title onwards, is brilliantly knowing about its knowingness. It knows the only way we'll tolerate a narrator as annoying as Ray is to punish him for the very virtues that make him a good narrator - nosiness and eloquence

Guardian

Joe Dunthorne is one of our best young writers

Metro

The Adulterants is thrust-the-book-at-the-person-next-to-you hilarious

New Statesman

Bristles with a deliciously sour, dyspeptic humour and is excellent at skewering the lifestyle habits of a liberal-minded middle-class

Daily Mail

Smartly written, The Adulterants riffs on London's housing crisis, competitively sensitive men and social media with wry insight

Book Riot

There is a chortle-inducing moment on almost every page... Dunthorne is not only one of contemporary fiction's funniest voices but also one of its most generous and perceptive

The Irish Times