Edith's Diary: A Virago Modern Classic - Virago Modern Classics (Paperback)

Highsmith probes to the very core of her heroine with a controlled ferocity and single-mindedness that illuminates every page of her novel. It is a masterly book, a haunting book, a book that lingers long in the memory and constantly disturbs and delights - The Times

Edith's Diary is certainly one of the saddest novels I ever read, but it is also one of the mere twenty or so that I would say were perfect, unimprovable masterpieces - A. N. Wilson, Telegraph

As original, as funny, as cleverly written and as moving as any novel I have read since I started reviewing - Auberon Waugh, Evening Standard

Edith's fall takes the form of a psychological chiller, but there is also something larger, the poignancy of her struggle not to go under. She is betrayed by such ordinary dreams - New York Times

A work of extraordinary force and feeling . . . her strongest, her most imaginative and by far her most substantial novel - New Yorker

Moral speculations surface about the respective responsibilities of the uncaring and the unloved, tenterhooks cushioned with an enveloping intimacy of character and place - Kirkus Reviews

Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing ....bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night - The New Yorker

Edith's fall takes the form of a psychological chiller, but there is also something larger, the poignancy of her struggle not to go under. She is betrayed by such ordinary dreams - New York Times

Highsmith probes to the very core of her heroine with a controlled ferocity and single-mindedness that illumines every page of her novel. It is a masterly book, a haunting book, a book that lingers long in the memory and constantly disturbs and delights. - The Times, The Times

A work of extraordinary force and feeling . . . her strongest, her most imaginative and by far her most substantial novel - New Yorker, New Yorker

As original, as funny, as cleverly written and as moving as any novel I have read since I started reviewing - Auberon Waugh, The Evening Standard

Edith's Diary is certainly one of the saddest novels I ever read, but it is also one of the mere twenty or so that I would say were perfect, unimprovable masterpieces - A.N Wilson, Daily Telegraph