Verb Your Enthusiasm

Hurrah! Let’s brush up on our verbs, people! Sarah Kaufman is the perfect writer for this important subject … Anyone who cares about writing should tickertape this book’s publication.

Lynne Truss

Like all first-rate writing on language, it’s also a meditation on existence … an almost shockingly adroit guide to how to make every word count. Writers – fledgling and expert – will find much here that’s practically useful, stimulating, and enlightening; All readers, I think, will benefit from Kaufman’s graceful exhortation to wield language effectively and – in an era of confounding obfuscation – honestly.

Benjamin Dreyer

Thoroughly enjoyable ... genuinely, wholeheartedly entertaining ... Fascinatingly, Verb Your Enthusiasm has its style recommendations backed up with science. It's strong evidence of how verbs 'shape our memories and imagination.' As a keen new member of Kaufman's verb fan club, though, I needed no convincing.

Ceci Browning, The Sunday Times

This is a manifesto I can really get behind.

Evening Standard

"Hurrah! Let’s brush up on our verbs, people! Sarah Kaufman is the perfect writer for this important subject … Anyone who cares about writing should tickertape this book’s publication."

Lynne Truss

"Like all first-rate writing on language, it’s also a meditation on existence […] an almost shockingly adroit guide to how to make every word count. Writers – fledgling and expert – will find much here that’s practically useful, stimulating, and enlightening; All readers, I think, will benefit from Kaufman’s graceful exhortation to wield language effectively and – in an era of confounding obfuscation – honestly."

Benjamin Dreyer