Good Women

At around 70 pages a pop, a Stevenson novella is the perfect literary form for our attention-deficient era: short enough to span a couple of journeys into work or a pair of bedtimes, yet as satisfying emotionally as many fictions five times the length, and with a tension and humour nourished by their concision. Elegant and cool, Stevenson's prose remains a wonderful thing, as efficient and unobtrusive as glass

Independent

Stevenson is such a fine writer: sinewy and erudite, dark and funny... I loved this book and if it doesn't find its way into an awful lot of suitcases this summer, there is no justice

Rachel Cooke, Observer

Jane Stevenson writes with easy and erudite fluency, perceptive candour and scalpel-like precision. Her characters are sexy, articulate and persuasive

Independent on Sunday

Utterly beguiling novellas...this is literary fiction as pure entertainment

Daily Mail

Acutely observed, funny and warm

Scotland on Sunday

Stevenson offers some engagingly sharp observations about family life

Daily Telegraph

Immensely satisfying. Rich and compelling

Times Literary Supplement

In a style as piercing as the glint in an estate agent's eye, she has written three marvellous morality tales for our mortgaged times

Sunday Times

Stevenson is sophisticated and irrepressibly playful...King Solomon had it that a good woman was worth more than rubies. Stevenson's Good Women are worth their weight in gold

Scottish Sunday Herald

Jane Stevenson has a unique talent for exploring the feminine sphere in a radically gutsy way, and I challenge any woman not to be so engrossed by her stories that she doesn't notice herself whooping with glee then collapsing in cathartic tears

Sunday Telegraph

Very good indeed. Flinty, fiery and funny

Independent on Sunday