George Sand

She (Jack) is admirably familiar with the full extent of Sand's prolific output which enables her to feast on rich anecdotes and indulge us with pithy dictums...You are holly convinced that George Sand was a phenomenon

The Express

Belinda Jack's sympathetic rereading and spirited defence of George Sand's fiction sends one straight back to those ignored novels

Times Literary Supplement

This is clever stuff, brilliantly in key with late 20th century preoccupations. Here is a book for grownups

Robert Nye, The Scotsman

Jack in looking behind the amazing spectacle (Sand)...has written an illuminating and entertaining book

Sunday Times