Dear Dickhead

Full of energy and blistering rationality, but generosity, too. This might be Despentes' wittiest and wisest novel yet. -- Lisa McInerney
Brilliant - funny, wise and completely addictive - a work of angry, outrageous and hilarious genius. -- Victoria Hislop
Highly entertaining . . . subtle and complex * Guardian *
A book that shows Despentes at her very best: incisive, intelligent and fearless. There is justifiable anger at the heart of Dear Dickhead, but it's a clear-eyed and channelled anger * New European *
This is what makes Despentes and her characters so appealing: they act as if they have nothing to lose yet it's clear they do . . . At 55, she is still lancing the patriarchy, and her writing remains highly acute. But it has become more sober, patient and full of emotional suspense * Financial Times *
Despentes pulls it off with a brio that's wholly characteristic . . . the energy of [her] voice kept me on her side, and rooting for Oscar, Rebecca and Zoé as they navigated their lives with varying degrees of failure, distress and, occasionally, hope * Telegraph *
A must-read...While waiting for society to evolve, Virginie Despentes stays the same * Vogue *
Virginie Despentes writes with a harpoon...A queer Castor. A grunge Jane Austen. A punk Pythia. A bacchante rebelling against the patriarchal order * Causeur *
This is the paradox and, perhaps, the power of Virginie Despentes: to be seen as both a radical and mainstream, divisive and agreeable, raging and benevolent * L'Obs *
She can capture all that makes up an era in a way nobody else can * Les Inrockuptibles *
She is a flower in the asphalt and the queen of her time * En attendant Nadeau *
Wry, intelligent, often laugh-out-loud funny - definitely not one to miss. * Marie Claire *