Hugely enjoyable
INDIA KNIGHT Like Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections without the bitterness, mixed with Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides without the eccentricity, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee is a thoroughly enjoyable and engrossing read'

Sunday Telegraph

Miller is a luminous writer . . . gazing into these multiple private Pippas is like ... Read moreopening a series of Russian dolls, each intricately wrought, self-contained and self-revealing.

Observer

A beautifully layered and subtle novel of identity, with a wonderfully vivid sense of place and character. And it's hesitatingly wise in all sorts of ways, as well as being a deftly constructed page-turner.

Joseph O'Connor

Miller's astute, beautifully nuanced novel explores the unpredictable consequences of choosing to live a safe, but emotionally compromised, life.

Daily Mail

Miller writes with a natural poetic flair that's considered and free from affectation.

Easy Living

With beautiful simplicity, Miller unravels Pippa's past and celebrates the stirrings of something new.

Good Housekeeping Book of the Month

Miller's prose is always sharp and visual without being overly descriptive. All of the descriptions, whether of people, places or emotions manage to be both prosaic and evocative... Although it had come to a natural and perfectly timed conclusion, I could happily have read much more about Pippa Lee and her secret lives.

Irish Sunday Independent

Miller's prose is tight and compelling; it moves in its own fast rhythm, richly packed with images that slice open the text . . . revealing the dark waters beneath.

The Times

This compulsively readable novel shows real insight into the lives - and roles - of women. Miller writes with a rare mix of warmth, veracity and barbed wit.

Waterstone's Books Quarterly

There is on every page a glint of verbal beauty like a jewel, and Miller's characters are so keenly observed as to be almost painful to read about. The novel's wit and glamour make it one of the best debuts of the year so far.

Literary Review

An elegant and trenchant study of roles and reinvention.

Tatler

A gripping story of romantic entaglement

Red

Miller writes particularly well about the complexities of mother-daughter love... excellent and moving

Guardian

Poignant, funny and wise

Financial Times

As the extraordinary details of her early life are retold, Pippa is revealed as a woman of many contradictions, thrillingly flawed

Psychologies

With fabulous writing, a brilliant tale of an adoring housewife struggling to hide her shady past from her oh-so-perfect neighbours

In Style

Has all the wit and pace of Desperate Housewives

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