The Last Hope of Girls - Softcover

Beautifully written, unsettling... Boyt is a singularly original writer, often darkly comic, with a vivid eye for detail, and her droll detailing of Martha's uneven journey towards new romance and reconciliation with her family delights as much as it disturbs (The Sunday Times)

Well-written and almost painterly in its vivid word-pictures (Belfast Telegraph)

`... beautifully written, unsettling third novel... Boyd is a singularly original writer, often darkly comic, with a vivid eye for detail... delights as much as it disturbs' (The Sunday Times)

Her novels.... vibrate with a subtly psychotherapeutic tone... her skill lies in the unravelling of intentions (Guardian)

Beautifully written and extraordinarily well constructed. It leaves you thinking about the characters long after you've finished reading it (Susanna Jones, Daily Mail)

The whole-page Roots feature in the Mail On Sunday was about Susie Boyt 29/7

'A very sensitively observed novel, as though the central character has one less layer of skin than other people. It is written with a very visual, almost painterly eye for detail, even when the details are bleak' Daily Mail

'The touching, romantic tale of a young woman adrift amid the bright lights of London' Mirror

'The stylish story of a young woman who, finding herself caretaker of an Oxford Street mansion block, tries to take life by the scruff of the neck' Conde Nast Traveller

'Sometimes, Martha wishes that her experience of family life was more like that of other people. Luckily for us, it's not, for the heroine of Boyt's third novel is a wonderful creation' Terry McMilllan

Newly installed as resident caretaker of four half-derelict West End flats, Martha Brazil can scarcely believe her luck. After years of stuffy bedsits and suburban flatshares, the future seems electric with the promise of renovation and repair. Surely anything might happen to a girl who embraces it with gusto... But even in her new home painful memories will intrude: of a high-handed father, a mother willing to embrace only the chronically dispossessed, and a beloved brother whose antics have estranged him from the family.