Sisterland

A joy to read...[for] Sittenfeld's ability to get under the skin of complicated, contradictory characters, capturing the anxieties, challenges and compromises of everyday life, love and parenthood so that ... you will find yourself nodding at the day-to-day dynamics and thinking, "Yes, that's exactly how it is."

Sunday Express

A must-read: the best dissection of a life spent among small children I've ever read.

Viv Groskop, Observer (Books of the Year)

A work of psychological genius and has a wonderful twist at the end...a literary pageturner...There's a fizzing, daring originality to Sisterland that draws you in and takes your breath away.

Observer

An intelligent, quietly devastating roller coaster of a read.

Metro

Curtis Sittenfeld has a knack for capturing characters so vividly it's uncanny...brilliantly evokes small-town Eighties adolescence...the gripping denouement is expertly carried out.

Daily Mail

Dazzlingly original, this absorbing book, which is at heart about family ties, fizzes with energy and will grip you to the last page.

Sunday Mirror

Engagingly messy mixture of the comic and the sombre...a beautifully delicate way of describing both familial and conjugal love.

Guardian

Engrossing.

Woman & Home

Fans will be swept along by Sittenfeld's confident, page-turning writing

The Times

Most people I know who have read anything by Curtis sittenfeld would read anything else the woman wrote, me included...Suddenly, trivial details become exquisite insights into class, entitlement, love and your place in the world...Fans will instantly be swept along by Sittenfeld's confident, page-turning writing and sharp eye.

The Times

Novelists get called master storytellers all the time, but Sittenfeld really is one.

Washington Post

Psychologically vivid...Sisterland is a testament to the author's growing depth and assurance as a writer.

Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

Sittenfeld’s confident no-frills style belies the complexities of her characters and their relationships.

New York Times Book Review

Sittenfeld's debut Prep was one of the best novels about adolescence written this century, and it is here, when dealing with the competitve world of teenage girls, that Sittenfeld is at her best in Sisterland...Like Kate Akinson with her recent Life After Life, Sittenfeld is a reliably realistic (if slightly dreamy) novelist who has here tackled a somewhat far-fetched concept outside her normal range and displayed impressive comfort in doing so.

Sunday Times

The questions it raises about self-fulfilling prophecies remain compelling...a modern American fable about tempting fate.

New Statesman

This assured and confident novel successfully combines the high-concept fantasy of Bewitched with the high-brow realism of Updike or Tyler

Independent

Will this be a novel turning on supernatural powers and a natural disaster or something else altogether? Without giving the end away one can say that it is more than anything a wonderful anatomy of family life.

Daily Express

Wise and empathetic, this is a book with a great sense of humour and an even bigger heart.

Glamour