Simply stunning. Honest, brilliant, arresting, and barefisted...also wise, human, funny

Andre Aciman

A great writer who will be remembered after I am gone

Shami Chakrabarti

Kavenna has wit and wisdom in glorious proportion

Aleksandar Hemon

Kavenna writes as if possessed, as if on a mission...One of the most entertaining, fluent and readable novelists around

Kate Kellaway

Kavenna is HILARIOUS, one of the funniest, and edgiest, writers I've read

A M Scanlon

Woman's a genius

Suzi Feay