‘Kiley Reid writes with a deceptively easy prose, and a forensic eye for the emotional self-sabotage and hypocrisies that make us human. I couldn’t put this down.’
Jojo Moyes
‘I loved this. I think it will have the same impact as Sally Rooney … wry and intricately observed.’
Pandora Sykes
‘The first time in a long time that I had a novel glued to my hands for two days. This so seldom happens to me. It is so good! So funny, so apposite to basically EVERYTHING going on right now, so touching, so tender, just utterly phenomenal.’
Jessie Burton
‘This is not a world of easy answers but one in which intentions don’t match actions and expectations don’t match consequences, where it is possible to mean something partly good and do something mostly bad. The result is both unsparing and compassionate, impossible to read without wincing in recognition—and questioning yourself. Such a Fun Age is nothing short of brilliant, and Kiley Reid is a writer we need now.’
Chloe Benjamin
‘Kiley Reid has delivered a poignant novel that could not be more necessary.’
Lena Waithe
‘A startling, razor-sharp debut. Kiley Reid has written a book with no easy answers, instead filling her story with delicious grey areas and flawed points of view. It’s both wildly fun and breathtakingly wise, deftly and confidently confronting issues of race, class, and privilege. I have to admit, I’m in awe.’
Taylor Jenkins Reid
‘Kiley Reid’s witty debut asks complicated questions around race, domestic work, and the transactional nature of each.’
Nafissa Thompson-Spires
‘Kiley Reid’s propulsive, page-turning book is full of complex characters and even more complex truths – this is a bullseye of a debut.’
Emma Straub
‘Reid excels at depicting subtle variations and manifestations of self-doubt, and astutely illustrates how, when coupled with unrecognised white privilege, this emotional and professional insecurity can result in unintended—as well as wilfully unseen—consequences. This is an impressive, memorable first outing.’
Publishers Weekly
‘Gripping, substantive, complicated, compelling and just plain true … Such a fantastic, serious and, I should say, fun read.’
Paul Harding
‘This is a deft coming-of-age story for the current American moment, one written so confidently it’s hard to believe it’s a first novel.’
Rumaan Alam
‘Kiley Reid has written a timely novel that asks what we owe to those we care for in this complicated world. With intimate, touching observations, Reid details the lives of two complicated, loving women who are trying to figure out how to live their best lives in a world that does not always make space for them to do so.’
Kaitlyn Greenidge