Juliet, Naked is Hornby's best novel to date. * Simon Baker, The Spectator *
Subtle and insightful, and really quite touching. * Laurence Phelan, The Independent on Sunday *
Ingenious, funny and moving, but also examines loneliness, self obsession and the dangers of communicating solely through a keyboard. * Wendy Holden, Daily Mail *
Hornby writes so well that you can almost smell the birdseed odour of badly dried clothes combined with failure that pervades Annie's house; his triumph though is to find infinite amounts of warmth and humour in this seeming world of desolation. * Roger Perkins, Sunday Telegraph magazine *
It's good to have him back. Nick Hornby's first adult novel in four years is a comic delight. Hornby's writing has an easy, fluent tone, as if he is right inside his characters' heads. * Nick Curtis, Evening Standard *
In Hornby's fiction, music is never just about music; among contemporary writers, only Jonathan Lethem has his sure sense for the way popular cultural artefacts become entwined, for good or ill, with ordinary relationships; and in particular, how pop songs minister to deep needs while exposing all too many fresh ones. * Bharat Tandon, TLS *
Juliet, Naked is Hornby's best novel to date. -- Simon Baker * The Spectator *
subtle and insightful, and really quite touching. -- Laurence Phelan * The Independent on Sunday *
ingenious, funny and moving, but also examines loneliness, self obsession and the dangers of communicating solely through a keyboard. -- Wendy Holden * Daily Mail *
Hornby writes so well that you can almost smell the birdseed odour of badly dried clothes combined with failure that pervades Annie's house; his triumph though is to find infinite amounts of warmth and humour in this seeming world of desolation. -- Roger Perkins * Sunday Telegraph magazine *
It's good to have him back. Nick Hornby's first adult novel in four years is a comic delight. Hornby's writing has an easy, fluent tone, as if he is right inside his characters' heads. -- Nick Curtis * Evening Standard *
In Hornby's fiction, music is never just about music; among contemporary writers, only Jonathan Lethem has his sure sense for the way popular cultural artefacts become entwined, for good or ill, with ordinary relationships; and in particular, how pop songs minister to deep needs while exposing all too many fresh ones. -- Bharat Tandon * TLS *
