Lucky Us

Unsettling, lavish with detail, daringly told... An unusual novel, rich and strange, often exhilarating. Its powerful images stay with you -- Susie Boyt * Financial Times *
This is a novel of enormous charm; deeply touching and often very funny. Bloom is bliss -- Kate Saunders * The Times *
Electrifying and inventive... the novel's superb opening lines set the tone for this worldly and sardonically funny tale... Beautifully precise and frequently stunning -- Holly Kyte * Sunday Telegraph *
Almost inappropriately beautiful... A convincing and even joyous celebration of alternative family -- Lesley McDowell * Independent on Sunday **** *
Bloom is astonishingly deft - whenever you think you've got the novel figured out, she unmoors you with a sudden kink in the narrative... [This] deserves to be a hit - it feels both powerfully exotic and universal in its insights into the human condition... A triumph -- Ed Power * Irish Independent **** *
The literary equivalent of sunlight on water - all dazzle and surprise. The story grabs you straight by the heart. Lucky Us sings and sighs in equally exquisite measure, and surely sets Amy Bloom even higher in the firmament of first-rate fiction. If you read only one book this month, make it this -- Madeleine Kingsley * Jewish Chronicle *
Lucky Us is a remarkable accomplishment. One waits a long time for a novel of this scope and dimension, replete with surgically-drawn characters, a mix of comedy and tragedy that borders on the miraculous, and sentences that should be in a sentence museum. Amy Bloom is a treasure -- Michael Cunningham, author * The Hours *
Lucky Us indeed - another Amy Bloom book. And, if it's possible, even more powerful and affecting than her last novel, Away. This is a poignant book that manages to be funny, an unflinching portrait that manages to be tender, a tough story that manages to also have jazz and grace. Bloom is one of those of great writers who keeps stepping into new territory, entirely unafraid. She is one of America's most unique and gifted literary voices -- Colum McCann, author * TransAtlantic *
Lucky Us sings and sighs in equally exquisite measure and surely sets Amy Bloom even higher in the firmament of first-rate fiction -- Madeleine Kingsley ‘Book of the Year’ * Jewish Chronicle *
Bloom is a dab hand at period detail [and] a sharp, pithy writer. The writing is slick and witty; the plot bowls along at a terrific pace. There is plenty to delight the reader -- Pamela Norris * Literary Review *
What I enjoyed most about reading Lucky Us was that I never knew what was coming on the next page - and it was always brilliant -- Roddy Doyle, author * The Dead Republic *
A coming-of-age story with heart... [enlivened] with understated humor as well as offbeat and unforgettable characters -- starred review * Kirkus *
Spare and trusting, Bloom invites readers to fill the spaces her pretty prose allows, with true and beautiful results -- starred review * Booklist *
Full of intriguing characters and lots of surprises... Excellent -- starred review * Library Journal *
I always like Amy Bloom's books... [This is] a complex relationship between two girls that becomes an even more complex relationship between two women -- Lionel Shriver * Guardian *
A brilliant tragic-comic tale -- Viv Groskop * Red *
Inventive, stunning, triumphant -- Holly Kyte * Irish Independent *
Filled with twists and beautiful set pieces... Unforgettable -- Francesca Angelini * Sunday Times *
A vibrant yet devastating examination of people and opportunity * Elle *
Amy Bloom has a way with eye-catching openings... [and reassures] us that the impossibility of permanence doesn't rule out the possibility of happiness -- Alastair Mabbott * Herald *
Entirely enthralling... It opens with two killer lines, typical of Bloom's startling economy with words and faculty in scene setting. Vivid and deliciously described -- Bernice Harrison * Irish Times *
[An] entertaining and disturbing subversion of what we thought we knew about Hollywood, the second world war, family life and the nature of good luck -- Jane Smiley * Guardian *
Mesmerising -- Sue Leonard * Irish Examiner *
I admired Bloom's evocative tale of an eccentric 1940s family -- Sinead Gleeson ‘Book of the year’ * Irish Times *