Bright Shiny Morning

‘Totally addictive’ - Time Out Sydney

‘Anyone who relishes challenging and often mind-bending modern storytelling will be unable to resist losing themselves with abandon i n Bright Shiny Morning.’ - Daily Telegraph

‘Compelling’ - AGE

An absolute triumph of a novel. In fact it’s so good that it makes Frey’s real-life resurrection from crooked biographer to great American novelist far more impressive … Frey, a natural novelist to his fingertips, hits the deeper truths with this honest, vibrant and tender portrait of Los Angeles and the American dream … It can be no exaggeration to say that Bright Shiny Morning amounts to the literary comeback of the decade … James Frey is probably one of the finest and most important writers to have emerged in recent years - Irvine Welsh, Guardian

He turns clich?s into characters robust enough to carry this 500-page Californian odyssey - Guardian

A sparkling narrative, which doesn’t shrink from exposing the city’s seamier side but ultimately is a huge celebration - Daily Mail

Frey writes with pace and energy - Times Literary Supplement

A compulsive piece of popular fiction … He’s an excellent entertainer … Frey can tell a story and has a fine eye for the variegated economic milieux in which his characters travel. So what if, by the end, you come away thinking the novel superficial and lacking in original insight? This is Los Angeles, baby. And in LA superficiality has its own integrity - The Times