Attachment

Just thinking of this novel, I smile… so gratifyingly readable. When it comes to deciphering our new world and its emotional intricacies, Fonseca is spot-on – Fay Weldon
A searing tale of middle-aged anxiety, so accomplished and pertinent, witty and wise * Independent on Sunday *
Fonseca possesses a wonderful eye and vocabulary for the observable world, a natural gift for portraiture and a nasty wit about characters we’re not supposed to like… All is perfectly suited to her complex subject, one worth taking seriously: the difficulty of loving someone you already love, and its corollary, the stony impenetrability of others – Richard Ford
An impressive debut…it is insistent, weighty, carefully and densely composed….this is an adult book in all respects, reflecting, with an inquiring intelligence and emotional honesty * Time Out *
She has an expressive turn of phrase and a gift for evoking a sense of place * Sunday Times *
Attachment faces the uncomfortable subject of female ageing with wry, disabused humour…read her book on its own feminist terms’ * The Times *
Fonseca’s prose is fluent, confident and often funny … she has a gift for satire that glimmers through this novel. And a near-perfect ear for nuances of speech. Attachment is ferociously well observed. Both physiologically and socially … as a first novel, the signs of greater things are clearly there * Guardian *
Fonseca’s voice - poised, particular, exotic - rises above her plot * Observer *
Her prose is elegant and wry * Daily Telegraph *
Fonseca’s talent lies in describing the texture of daily life: the mango with a ‘skin like sunset’, the pizza boxes that open ‘like laptops’ … she is good on the sweep of history and the cultural climate of previous times … telling details of character - particularly the male characters, are captured well * New Statesman *

Isabel Fonseca was born in New York and educated at Columbia University and Oxford. She was an assistant editor at the Times Literary Supplement and has written for a wide range of publications, from the Wall Street Journal to Vogue. Her first book, Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey, was an international bestseller. She lives in London with her husband and their two daughters.

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