Truth and Consequences

I am re-reading with enormous delight and greed. If you're new to [Lurie], lucky you: marvellously astute comedies of social, moral and sexual manners, her witty exuberance is nothing short of inspirational.

Helen Simpson

Mordant and entertaining, and wonderfully expansive about a time, a place, and the corrosive effect of selfishness

Penelope Lively, Spectator

Hours of bitter-sweet, highly intelligent fun

Scotsman

An enjoyably spiky minuet of human selfishness

The Times

Sly and funny. A deeply pleasurable page-turner

Observer

It is Lurie, not Updike whom people will one day read to discover what our life and times were really like. Dazzling intelligent, witty, perceptive and engaging, she is not to be missed

New Statesman

A story of modern love that will have readers laughing and sighing with recognition... A wry, insightful, thoroughly enjoyable tale about how men and women choose their demons and their lovers, and the sacrifices they're willing to make for both

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

An enjoyably spiky minuet of human selfishness

Jane Shilling, The Times

Delightful... Her characters are, as always, wonderfully imperfect

New York Review of Books

Lurie expertly maps the downward marital slope: the slow falling out of love, the undignified transformations of middle age, the interplay of eros and hypochondria... The author's satirical gifts are undiminished

Wall Street Journal

Lurie is the reigning queen of a certain kind of academic comedy... Truth & Consequences is a deeply pleasurable page-turner

Rachel Cooke, Observer

Lurie's entertaining novel charts these symmetrical relationships with subtlety and compassion, and thoughtfully examines the balance of power between those who give and require care

Daily Mail