Berlin

Scintillating . . . Berlin is wonderfully funny, and Daphne's observations about modern life, men and the challenges facing young women always hit the nail * FINANCIAL TIMES *
Uncommonly funny, cinematically vivid, and refreshingly honest about how we deceive others and ourselves. * Lisa Halliday, author of ASYMMETRY *
Anyone who's started over in a new city -- let alone a new country -- will relate . . . One for Sally Rooney fans * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *
A compelling, raw, and thrillingly strange outsider tale of loneliness and deception. Setton is a wonderful writer who, with this sharp debut, adds to the great canon of contemporary anti-heroines. * Mona Awad, author of BUNNY *
Combining the darkness of a thriller with humour, Bea Setton's debut is a fresh and deeply honest take on the modern female experience * STYLIST *
Setton builds her growing paranoia and sense of dread to terrific effect in this unsettling, compelling read. * OBSERVER *
Enjoyable and astutue . . . Daphne's impressions are rendered in precise, lively prose -- Rob Doyle * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *
Cinematic and confessional . . . Berlin is a Woolfian mirror: Red herrings and cliffhangers stoke interest by conforming to expectations, until the novel undercuts them with digressions and anticlimaxes, reveling in its own formal impunity. . . electric. * THE NEW YORK TIMES *
[An] engagingly self-conscious debut . . . our attention is firmly held by the wry wit of Daphne's voice, as well as regular hints that she's something of an unreliable narrator . . . the book's success lies chiefly in its line by-line charm * DAILY MAIL *
Weird, compelling and unique: I was completely absorbed by BERLIN, with its slippery, unsettling narrator, its vivid evocation of a city seen through the troubling lens of disorientation, and by the writing itself, which gleamed. * Francesca Reece, author of VOYEUR *