With this book, Abigail Assor announces herself as one of the most distinctive voices in North African literature. This is a vibrant, sensual, subversive novel with an unforgettable heroine -- Leïla Slimani

In this richly evoked story set in a city of two very distinct halves, Assor draws a rich and rather damning portrait of life between haves and have-nots in contemporary Morocco, striking a balance between desire and delusion - Marie Claire

Don't let its French prize-winning status fool you: this is a pleasurable, even filthy summer romance... This confident debut suggests that Assor may prove a worthy successor to Sagan. She has certainly earned her prize money with this dirty beach read about motorbikes, moody teens and misplaced desire on the Moroccan coast - The Times

The sounds, the smells, the gritty details of every scene are laid bare in a light as harsh and bright as the sun... A captivating novel - Le Figaro

Casablanca stretches out before our astonished eyes, humming with rage and life... A captivating debut - Lire

Abigail Assor's writing is precise, sensual, subversive and wildly lyrical. Astonishing - Le Parisien

Stunning in its truth, cruelty and style - Paris Match

Earthy and colourful, lyrical and sensual, mordant and dizzying, Abigail Assor's style carries the reader off to faraway places - Baz'art

The shooting star of French literature... Her style is powerful, poetic, precise, clever and rousing. Whoever can write like this, without affect, drama, acrobatics or tricks is a great writer - Kultur & Service

[Assor] grew up in Casablanca in the Nineties and her knowledge of the city comes screaming through, via her gorgeously poetic prose... An utterly stunning novel -- Mark Wheywood - Behind the Spine

Abigail Assor was born in Casablanca in 1990. As Rich as the King is her debut novel. It won the Françoise Sagan Prize, the Bookstagram Prize and was shortlisted for the Goncourt Prize for Debut Novel in France, and is now being translated into six languages