Only Human ends with some of the arguments and situations in motion, others unaddressed, a few resolved. What is surprising is the amount of stored laughter and banked-up optimism you retain from the wreckage of these fictional lives. Reading this book is like plugging your emotional battery-charger into the mains. Its crisply original, unshowy languge tingles with static; its insight jolts dangerously; its gags spark and sputter cleverly. Yet
Only Human leaves you feeling warm and solid despite and because of your own - ultimately - limited capacities - Saturday Telegraph
A fresh and wholly idiosyncratic take on life - Independent
This is subtly done: there are reservoirs of grief here, but they are sounded not plumbed, their presence registering on the surface as evidence of emptiness below Despite this the novel does not depress and there is some startling sharp humour it is hard not to be won over - TLS
Her most self-assured book yet, by turns funny and sad - Telegraph Magazine
A sharp and funny portrait of people trying to find connections as their lives unravel around them - Observer
The fourth novel by Susie Boyt is both funny and painful. Delighting in quiet detail - the rich colour of a coat, the sight of slender birds across a patch of sky - she lends grace and elegance to this tale of an ordinary woman trying to be good in a difficult
