A dazzling urban satire of modern human relations?An ironic, tragic insight into the demise of the nuclear family?Or the confused ramblings of a pissed thirty-something?“A brilliant evocation of the life of a single girl in a certain time… reads like Anita Loos out of Jane Austen, and any woman who has ever had a job, a relationship or, indeed, a mother, will read it and roar”Gill Hornby, The Times