Dunedin - Virago Modern Classics (Paperback)

She writes like an angel wielding a scalpel, dissecting her characters with sublime, sharp-edged prose * Guardian *
Her prose is flawlessly seductive and comic, confidently witty and sensual -- Julie Myerson * Independent on Sunday *
She is a dazzling sort of a writer -- Rachel Cooke
Shena Mackay notices a London that passes most writers by . . . Her London is not a convenient backdrop - it is the capital itself, vividly and freshly set down in glancing detail -- Paul Bailey * Independent *
A rich feast to be enjoyed page by page as Mackay, in often dazzling prose, describes the hilarious antics of bibulous writers or, with moving lyricism, those 'surprised by joy' * Kirkus *
What a superbly imaginative writer she is ... Mackay takes large risks, but when they come off the result is breathtaking -- John Banville
An adroit novel that incisively but compassionately deploys a dysfunctional family with familiar problems - isolation, failed hopes, mutual deceit - in comic configurations * New York Times *