Michèle Roberts
Reviews & Quotes
The
Looking Glass (2000)
'A welcome and thought-provoking antidote to the recent spate of ditzy-girlie novels about the state of modern love...Roberts' heroines are seductive because they are always fleshy creatures steeped in the sensual pleasures of food and sex...it is refreshing to read a novel so full of voluptuous pleasures' Julia Bell, Financial Times
'Plural narrative voices add voluptuous layers of detail and description to her shimmering and sensuous prose...Writing as exquisite and tactile as this is not to be missed' Elizabeth Buchan, Daily Mail
'Her style is languorous, the points she makes are bleak and sly. Yet in her own gentle way, she seems to be saying that the world of women is sensuous, companionable and tender, that of men abrupt and hollow' Penny Perrick, Sunday Times
'Bitter, balanced and sophisticated...Powerful tale of female need, desire and projection...highly compelling' Caroline Moore, Literary Review
Daughters
of the House (1992) 
Shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize
Winner of W H Smith Literary Award 1993
"Remarkable and beautifully written"- Hermione Lee, Independent on Sunday
"A brave and richly imagined novel, full of thrilling set-pieces...one of our best writers" - Jonathan Coe, Guardian
"Utterly beguiling" - Joanna Trollope
"Subtle and persuasive" - Cosmopolitan