'I cannot recommend a book more joyfully ... Hilariously funny, miraculously observed, endlessly touching' Jilly Cooper 'The best, the original, the seminal' Mail on Sunday 'Observed with merciless, flamboyant wit ... gloriously funny' Penny Perrick, Sunday Times 'A brilliant comic creation. Even men will laugh' Salman Rushdie 'Effortlessly addictive ... presents a perfect zeitgeist of single female woes' Sunday Express 'Observed with merciless, flamboyant wit ... gloriously funny' Penny Perrick, Sunday Times 'A brilliant evocation of the life of a single girl ... any woman who has ever had a job, a relationship or, indeed, a mother, will read it and roar' Gill Hornby, The Times