Press

What the critics say

A very good novel indeed - the relationship between mother and daughter is a triumph. This novel deserves to be bought, read and kept.
-

One True Thing is so uncompromising in its portrait of life and death, so honest in its rendering of love and loss, that it is simply impossible to forget.
-

Quindlen's extraordinary moving novel is about family responsibilities, compassion, and growing up.
- Daily Mail

Not a word or an emotion is out of place
- Sunday Times

...a brave and beautiful book.
- The Times

Imbued with heartbreak, grace and humour, this novel made me walk taller for days.
- She

One True Thing is a book about the very nature of love... and insight into the workings of the heart is what Anna Quindlen is so good at
- Tatler

Witty, profound... exhilarating
-

Fiercely compassionate and frank... conveys a world so out of kilter and so like ours that its readers are likely to feel both exhilarated and unnerved by its accuracy.
- Elle U.S.

Provocative... we leave One True Thing stimulated and challenged, more thoughtful than when we began.
- Los Angeles Times