The Wife

The wife was published less than a decade ago, but I say it is already a classic - and I have no idea why it's author remains so less well known than her US compatriots, Alison Lurie and Lorrie Moore.

Observer

Hilarious and touching

Erica Wagner, The Times

With a great lightness of touch, Wolitzer's novel satirises American literary circles of the Seventies and Eighties and traces the generation of wives who poured their own creative energies into "stoking the fires" of their husbands' reputations.

Emma Hagestadt, Independent

Meg Wolitzer is so funny and clever she should be bottled and sold as tonic

Allison Pearson

A triumph of tone and observation, The Wife is a blithe, brilliant take on sexual politics

Lorrie Moore