Truly one of the most beautiful stories you'll ever read -- Joanna Cannon

I laughed, I cried, I sat quietly and thought about what I'd read . . . a future classic -- Clare Mackintosh

I read it in one breath . . . true and tragic and funny and hopeful and big - big enough somehow to contain all of our stories and all of our lives inside it -- Joanna Glen

This book is just magic -- Kate Sawyer

A mad, sad, funny debut -- Patrick Gale

A tender, funny and surprising meditation on grief and hope . . . like nothing I've ever read before - Stylist

Heart-wrenching yet oddly soothing, this is utterly beautiful - PRIMA 'Book of the Month'

Sublime -- Bryony Gordon

An extraordinary story . . . brimming with magic and - perhaps most importantly - hope - Glamour

A mesmerising debut, capturing everything that's funny and sad about real life -- David Whitehouse

A mesmerising debut, capturing everything that's funny and sad about real life - Sunday Independent

This novel will be everywhere. A mad, sad, funny debut -- Patrick Gale

It's rare a book makes such an impact on me -- Ruth Hogan

A strange, funny, adventurous novel which will stay with me for a long time -- Mark Watson

I read it in one breath. Then I couldn't quite work out what had happened to me, but whatever it was, it was true and tragic and funny and hopeful and big - big enough somehow to contain all of our stories and all of our lives inside it -- Joanna Glen

A bold, beautiful undertaking -- Poorna Bell

Funny, sad, surreal, life-affirming . . . I too would like an egg -- Kasim Ali

Bizarre, beautiful and like nothing else I've ever read -- Annie Lord

One of the most inventive, funny and moving things you'll ever read -- Richard Roper

Very moving and clever and the writing is beautiful . . . Although it starts with a death and darkness, it's a story of hope and embracing newness -- Justin Myers, the Guyliner

A beautiful book . . . joyful, splendidly odd and ultimately profound -- Lizzie Pook