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A brilliant summer read… funny and moving, with characters you feel you really know * The Times BEST BOOKS TO READ THIS SUMMER *
Poignant and extremely funny, the frictions that ensue are all too believable – Leon Craig * Guardian *
Intensely funny… profoundly touching… a very superior literary beach read, the sort of book that you need to finish urgently but that lives on in your head for years – India Knight * Sunday Times *
Captures the reality of various relationships on the rocks with startling accuracy and emotional intimacy. I laughed, I cried, I couldn’t pull my eyes away – Daisy Jones * Vogue Best Beach Reads 2026 *
A really great book… the perfect holiday read * Off Air with Fi and Jane, Times Radio *
Perfectly observed characters in the pressure cooker of an all-inclusive holiday… I loved it – Luke Kennard * Guardian *
Powell excels at writing about the thousands of paper cuts that kill a relationship and does it with humour and honesty * Good Housekeeping *
A brilliantly relatable novel… superb – Zoe West * Woman & Home *
I loved Claire Powell’s poignant and funny novel about a luxury family holiday that is far from idyllic – Kate Wills * Sun *
Beneath the sunshine and glamour old resentments and family tensions simmer… A perfect poolside read * Closer *
What Claire Powell does so beautifully is to write about the messy humanity of being a person just trying to exist in the world – Sara Manning * Substack *
I couldn’t stop reading… Claire Powell is a real talent – JENNIE GODFREY, author of The List of Suspicious Things
A superior beach read with a propulsive plot; but Powell is also doing something quietly political by placing Jo and Dave centre stage and showing us the complexity and richness of these so-called ordinary lives – Alex Peake-Tomkinson * Spectator *
I was having such fun reading that its emotional undertow caught me off guard. I had tears in my eyes at the end – REBECCA WAIT, author of I’m Sorry You Feel That Way
Elegant, sensitive and sympathetic – JESSICA STANLEY, author of Consider Yourself Kissed
Quietly devastating. Not a word out of place – SARAH VAUGHAN, author of Anatomy of a Scandal
An exquisitely observed, propulsively plotted story of a family in free fall – JOE DUNTHORNE, author of Submarine
A deliciously messy tale of marriage, money, and miscommunication – CHLOË ASHBY, author of Wet Paint
As funny and sad as a dropped ice cream – ANDREW HUNTER MURRAY, author of A Beginner’s Guide to Breaking and Entering
A beautifully nuanced and completely gripping exploration of love, family and marriage by an exceptionally gifted writer – LISA OWENS, author of Not Working

Claire Powell is the author of At The Table, which was named one of the best books of 2022 by The Times and Sunday Times, The Telegraph, The Critic, Red Magazine, and Good Housekeeping. A graduate of the University of East Anglia Creative Writing MA, she was awarded the Malcolm Bradbury Bursary and the Malcolm Bradbury Continuation Prize. Her short stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4, and in 2017, she won the Harper’s Bazaar short story contest. She lives with her family in south-east London.

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