Perhaps the greatest novel of them all... An enormous canvas and a vast and poignant range of character…a marvellous portrait of nineteenth-century provincial life
Joanna Trollope,

Perhaps the greatest novel of them all... An enormous canvas and a vast and poignant range of character…a marvellous portrait of nineteenth-century provincial life
Joanna Trollope,

Another great romantic story, in which the adorable intellectually pretentious heroine makes a disastrous marriage to a desiccated fossil before finding true love with a penniless somebody
Jilly Cooper,

Another great romantic story, in which the adorable intellectually pretentious heroine makes a disastrous marriage to a desiccated fossil before finding true love with a penniless somebody
Jilly Cooper,

In Middlemarch George Eliot's serious intelligence produced a novel that no one else could have been capable of – a picture of society as an organic, living, breathing synthesis – order and disorder, hope and hopelessness, pride and humility, charity and greed.
Kate Atkinson,

In Middlemarch George Eliot's serious intelligence produced a novel that no one else could have been capable of – a picture of society as an organic, living, breathing synthesis – order and disorder, hope and hopelessness, pride and humility, charity and greed.
Kate Atkinson,