Attachment

Attachment faces the uncomfortable subject of female ageing with wry, disabused humour...read her book on its own feminist terms'

The Times

A searing tale of middle-aged anxiety, so accomplished and pertinent, witty and wise

Independent on Sunday

A witty exploration of the preoccupations of middle age - sex, serious illness, the death of a parent - its main attraction being the voice, at once tough, funny and lonely, of the inimitable Jean.

Arminta Wallace, Irish Times

An impressive debut...it is insistent, weighty, carefully and densely composed....this is an adult book in all respects, reflecting, with an inquiring intelligence and emotional honesty

Time Out

Fabulous and very clever

Marilla Frostrup, Psychologies

Fonesca's debut novel is a funny, heart rendering account of the virtues of love and desire, confounded against the everyday.

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Fonseca possesses a wonderful eye and vocabulary for the observable world, a natural gift for portraiture and a nasty wit about characters we're not supposed to like... All is perfectly suited to her complex subject, one worth taking seriously: the difficulty of loving someone you already love, and its corollary, the stony impenetrability of others

Richard Ford

Fonseca's prose is fluent, confident and often funny ... she has a gift for satire that glimmers through this novel. And a near-perfect ear for nuances of speech. Attachment is ferociously well observed. Both physiologically and socially ... as a first novel, the signs of greater things are clearly there

Guardian

Fonseca's talent lies in describing the texture of daily life: the mango with a 'skin like sunset', the pizza boxes that open 'like laptops' ... she is good on the sweep of history and the cultural climate of previous times ... telling details of character - particularly the male characters, are captured well

New Statesman

Fonseca's voice - poised, particular, exotic - rises above her plot

Observer

Her prose is elegant and wry

Daily Telegraph

Involving novel

Observer

Isabel Fonseca's slinkily assured debut novel shows a wry appreciation of the complexities of modern love...a novel that presumes to put a woman's mid-life crisis - sexual, spiritual and intellectual - centre stage

Emma Hagestadt, Independent

Just thinking of this novel, I smile... so gratifyingly readable. When it comes to deciphering our new world and its emotional intricacies, Fonseca is spot-on

Fay Weldon

She has an expressive turn of phrase and a gift for evoking a sense of place

Sunday Times

this smart, clammy drama, manages to be both unsettling and touching

Guardian