Blood (Paperback)

'A wise and beautiful book about what it feels like to be alive.' - Zadie Smith

'Fast-moving, energetic, constantly surprising.' - Hilary Mantel

'I love the work of Maggie Gee: wickedly smart, funny and fearless, plus that rarest of all things, genuinely surprising. Read her.' - Patrick Ness

'Worldly, witty, enjoyable, impressive.' - Doris Lessing

'Maggie Gee has never written better.' - Rose Tremain

'Excellent... Exciting stuff.' - Fay Weldon

'A tour de force - brilliantly structured, surprising, humane, and suspenseful.' - Elaine Showalter

'Brilliant ... just brilliant ... deserves to be published in every language.' - Hillary Jordan

'Gripping, original and highly entertaining - Maggie Gee at her superb best.' - J G Ballard

'So rich it is almost aromatic ... an impressive and important novel.' - Nigella Lawson

'Outstanding ... tender, sexy and alarming.' - Jim Crace

'Audacious, playful and dazzlingly written.' - The Herald

'Wickedly funny... contains lines that sparkle.' - Sunday Telegraph

'This giddily playful novel is cunning what if... A gloriously funny, fleet-footed novel.' - Metro Best Summer Reads 

'A witty book... It's got everything in a novel that I really like.' - Jacqueline Wilson's Six Best Books, Express

'Dazzling... alternately lyrical and austere... unbearably touching.' - The Observer

'For all its passion and intricacy, is also a very funny book... rewarding... carefully written, using language echoing the water that ebbs and flows, and eventually floods the pages.' - TLS

'Sublimely funny and infinitely subtle, pure delight.' - Daily Telegraph

'Energetic and beguiling.' - Sunday Telegraph

'Up there with Orwell and Huxley.' - Jeremy Paxman 

'Maggie Gee is one of our most ambitious and challenging novelists.' - Sunday Times

'Hang on to your hats, it's a joy.' - Jane Gardam