The Interestings

Meg Wolitzer’s latest offering promises to be the epic novel of the summer

Stella, Sunday Telegraph

This is a wonderful book. Intelligent and subtle, it is exquisitely written with enormous warmth and depth of emotion… But what makes The Interestings exceptional is the precision and elegance of Wolitzer’s writing… This should be the novel to make Wolitzer a household name here too

Kate Mosse, The Times

A complex, cleverly interwoven analysis of the moment when the lives of six friends begin to unravel’

Viv Groskop, Observer

Wolitzer has a knack for homing in on the kind of pretension-puncturing details that can sum up a minor character in a single sentence

Hepzibah Anderson, Daily Mail

Meg Wolitzer writes fluently about the American Dream and whether you should surrender your goals to reality in this wonderful novel

Stylist

A breakout book

Allison Pearson

If you enjoy the introspective aspects of Virginia Woolf or the American modernity of Jennifer Egan, you’ll love this sweeping, tragicomic novel of ideas

Psychologies

One of those generation-defining America novels that tackles big historical issues

Marie Claire

Full of wit

Emerald Street

The wit, intelligence and deep feeling of Wolitzer’s writing are extraordinary and The Interestings brings her achievement, already so steadfast and remarkable, to an even higher level

Jeffrey Eugenides

Wolitzer is a writer of prodigious energy and detail, with the knack for comic-satirical perceptions of character and culture

Rachel Cusk, Guardian

A wonderful novel, written with warmth and depth of emotion

Kate Mosse, The Times

This is an exhilarating, aerobatic, addictive novel

Claire Lowdon, Sunday Times

Meg Wolitzer’s best novel yet

William Leith, Evening Standard

The dreamy, criss-crossing narrative proves Wolitzer one of America’s most ingenious and important writers

Sunday Telegraph

An engrossing look at life’s twists and turns

Woman's Weekly

I love Meg Wolitzer’s The Interestings because it’s sprawling and beautifully written and it opens at a summer camp. It’s a truly great novel about friendship, and how it deepens and changes over the years

David Sedaris, Conde Nast Traveller

Meg Wolitzer proves brilliant at writing normal, unremarkable lives, investing them with just as much detailed attention and humane humour as the lives of the beautiful, the rich and the famous… [She] also pulls off an impressive balancing act, sometimes inhabiting the moment-to-moment present of her characters, and at others times writing with a droll hindsight

Holly Williams, Independent on Sunday

The wit, intelligence and deep feeling of Wolitzer’s writing are extraordinary and The Interestings brings her achievement, already so steadfast and remarkable, to an even higher level.

JEFFREY EUGENIDES

There are certain authors whose new book you look forward to as though you were about to catch up on news from an old friend. And there are authors whose new book you fall on greedily because you know it will be tartly delicious and satisfy a hunger you didn’t know you had till you read them for the first time. For me, Meg Wolitzer has long been in both of those categories… The Interestings is full of Wolitzer’s trademark pleasures. I love her fearlessness in tackling everything … She has a sly wit and verbal brio which can even make clinical depression entertaining

Allison Pearson, Daily Telegraph

This is a wonderful book. Intelligent and subtle, it is exquisitely written with enormous warmth and depth of emotion… Wolitzer is an affectionate and clear-sighted observer of human nature

Kate Mosse, The Times

Wolitzer is a writer of prodigious energy and detail, with the knack for comic-satirical perceptions of character and culture

Rachel Cusk, Guardian