`Man oh man, do I love this book! Audacious, imaginative and totally wonderful' Karen Joy Fowler `I can't remember a book I enjoyed more' Nina Stibbe 'Smart, funny, charming and profound. Elizabeth McKenzie is clearly some sort of genius' Paul Murray `The squirreliest novel I ever read. I enjoyed it completely' Ursula K. Le Guin `Raw and weird and hilarious . . . very entertaining' Scarlett Thomas, Guardian `Ambitious, spirited, funny, daring' Financial Times `A touching, wildly funny and peculiarly elegant look at the travails of love of all kinds' Sunday Express `Utterly charming. A true joy of a book' Irish Examiner `Full of life and humour and compassion' Times Literary Supplement `Darkly funny, irrepressibly quirky and very, very hard to put down' Sam Baker, The Pool `Quirky and smart. If you loved Karen Joy Fowler's We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, you'll love this' Glamour `Wildly brilliant. Razor-sharp, intimate, hilarious and profound. Every page is a delight' Emma Jane Unsworth `Terrifically entertaining . . . hard to resist' Daily Mail `Offbeat, thoughtful, mischievous . . . McKenzie [has] a pin-sharp eye for the tragic-comic, and for dialogue' Herald (Scotland) `A novel of festive originality' The New York Times `Unforgettable. A wild ride that you will not want to miss' San Francisco Chronicle `If The Portable Veblen has a flaw, it is that its caricatures are so on the nose as to make the reader hope to flee the human race' Boston Globe `Oddball characters and plot turns abound, including talking squirrels and bureaucratic ironies worthy of Catch-22. But a sober question occupies its core: Do our parents' best intentions do us harm?' Minneapolis Star Tribune `Accurately and funnily capture[s] the complexities of modern families . . . The Corrections meets The Wallcreeper' Huffington Post