The Brainstorm

This is an original first novel, cruel and incisive

Viv Groskop, Sunday Express

A fascinating comic creation

Independent

A highly amusing and pretty convincing satire of the newspaper industry

Times Literary Supplement

Turner, a writer and journalist herself, faithfully portrays the dynamics of a media environment, often to comic effect

New Statesman

This is a very clever, subtle novel, that in its quiet way polishes the surface of things so that we see them, for a while, as if for the first time

Nicholas Lezard, Evening Standard

Seriousness and farce are perfectly balanced in an elegant, thoughtful whole

Roz Kaveney, Time Out

This wry, teasing novel should appeal to hacks and Hegel fans everywhere

Guardian

It is a funny and inventive book and Turner manages to fence dazzlingly with stereotypes and sharp home truths while making her mordant observations part of a far bigger picture

Stuart Kelly, Scotland on Sunday

All of [the characters] are exquisitely drawn, satirically yet with compassion... Her style is so considered and condensed it is sometimes as beautiful as blank verse... Jenny Turner is a gifted novelist and this novel, slender but never slight, leaves you wanting more

Hermione Eyre, Independent

[A] smartly-written novel...the writing remains fresh and persuasive

Hepzibah Anderson, Observer