Worth
- Published: 15 August 2011
- ISBN: 9781407075327
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 288
A darkly comic read that's perfect for anyone considering chucking in city life and starting afresh
Sport Magazine
Acute, horrifying and entertaining
The Lady
As an advertisement for either urban or rural living among self-satisfied characters, Worth is a toe-curling horror story; as a cheeky and well-directed poke in said characters' eyes, it's a winner
Independent on Sunday
Brilliantly good - so precise and well-observed and witty, and also one of the few books I've ever read that manages to be both tense and funny
Craig Brown
Canter is a sharp writer with a wickedly dry wit
Metro
Canter is a sympathetic writer and one with a keen eye and ear for the absurd. There are sentences on almost every page which raise a smile
Scotsman
He is arguably the finest comic novelist working in Britain today. Indeed, he may just be the finest comic anything working in Britain right now... Canter's prose is achingly funny...it is also vital, acute, literary and oddly moving.
James Kidd, Independent
Hilarious... Smart, confident and, in places, eye wateringly upfront
Elizabeth Buchan, Sunday Times
Hilarious…every page contains a joke
Christopher Hirst, Independent
It's set in my favourite place (Suffolk) and I opened it at random, read a page and laughed
Julie Myerson, Daily Telegraph
Jon Canter is a North London Woody Allen
Independent
Jon Canter is hilarious and self-deprecating, a wonderful, wise and witty writer
Helen Fielding
Metropolitan media types transplanted to Suffolk provides fertile ground for Canter’s third hilarious novel…every page contains a joke
Christopher Hirst, Independent
Powered by Jon Canter's sharp and original wit and his constantly fizzing prose...an acute and very funny novel about the perils of rural life and of falling a little bit in love with your next-door neighbour
Daily Mail
The author's comic take on the gap between his characters' aspirations and their shortfall makes for hilarious, snappy reading... A sermon on the perils of the rural dream, it will have estate agents blanching. But as a robust and sharp piece of fiction, it is smart, confident and, in places, eye wateringly upfront
Elizabeth Buchan, Sunday Times
With shades of Mike Leigh's Another Year, it's a consistently funny skewering of middle-class clichés with memorable characters and a dark twist
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