TonyInterruptor

Brilliantly over-the-top... Barker is known for experiment and brainy whimsy. There could be no better person to write a comedy about art and its discontents... It's a rollercoaster kind of excess, where the best part is that it's too much... Barker seems incapable of putting a foot wrong. This is satire that sees right through you, but forgives you and teaches you to forgive yourself. It's that rare thing, a serious work of art that is also a giddy confection: a vehicle of pure delight -- Sandra Newman * Guardian *
A comic masterpiece... This is smart, calculated, musical prose: no word is out of place, no reference made without provocation... TonyInterruptor is as obtrusive as it is resplendent. It demands to be read * Telegraph *
The zaniest voice in modern English fiction... Nicola Barker is our laureate of the edge. This, her latest dispatch from the periphery, is a brilliant, if bewildering, novel with an eccentric take on the many ways we fail to live our lives honestly * Literary Review *
A witty, hyperactive satire on art and authenticity... An out-of-the-ordinary author doing what others don't... A 224-page cacophony of argument over art, authenticity and selfhood... It's a mark of Barker's artistry that we're actually made to care about the ensuing emotions, rather than viewing the characters merely as puppets for satire * Observer *
A hilarious, important novel. A correct and a real one. There is something in the writing that is wild in a virtuosic way and, needless to say, hugely intelligent -- Isabel Waidner, author of Sterling Karat Gold
There is a direct river running from Chaucer, through Laurence Sterne and William Blake, picking up jetsam from Angela Carter and Martin Amis and erupting wonderfully in Nicola Barker, one of Britain's Greatest novelists. TonyInterrupter is a joyous and exhilarating ride which pushes you through the rabbit warren of art, literature and the human soul -- Camilla Grudova
A blizzard of a novel - an account of disobedience and transformation; connection and departure. Barker's characters collide with one another gleefully, and the use of language is sublime. I found myself bouncing from one page to the next -- Fiona Mozley
This book is extremely funny. It is deliriously pacy. It radiates with righteousness and purity of heart. It is truly unusual and truly new and it proves, once again, that Nicola Barker is a tribune of the human imagination -- Aidan Cottrell-Boyce
No one writes like Barker... Tonyinterruptor is a wise, funny, spiritual and deeply human novel -- Ben Masters
[A] clever comic novel, which brilliantly interrogates our understanding of the internet, love and truth * Vogue *
[Has] all the emotional chaos and sharp wit of Fleabag - but in male form. Filled with eccentricity, this is a brilliant story about the struggle for authenticity in the digital age * Elle *
Nicola Barker is such a mercurial, capricious novelist that it is sometimes occludes the fact that she is a profoundly serious writer... A joy and a challenge, an irreverence and a gauntlet... Barker's characters always have a human hinterland... There is a fluency across the novel... poignant slash excruciating * Scotland on Sunday *