Ladies' Lunch

The everyday stuff of ageing, delivered with spark ... The writing is spare and short, telling us only what is needed, like snatches of conversation heard over the clinking of glasses. These ladies are perfect company -- John Self * Times *
Segal has the dazzling ability to merge the mundane details of life with the arc of human emotions * The Washington Post *
I always feel in her work such a sense of toughness and humor.... Her writing is sad and funny, and that makes it more of both -- Jennifer Egan
If America had anything resembling a wise elder, or cared to, it would be Lore Segal -- Shalom Auslander
There is humour even in the most heart-breaking of her stories -- Nicole Lampert * Telegraph *
Deft, delicious stories that follow the lives of a group of long-standing friends... and perfectly pitched memoirist musings -- Eithne Farry * Daily Mail *
Lore Segal has the sharp analytic eye of a born writer * The New York Times Book Review *
Friends die, we grow old, but stories survive ... we are lucky to have this piercing collection from a writer who has known for so long how to tell them * Times Literary Supplement *
A spare moving portrait ... tracing the rhythms and bittersweet comedy of aging * Spectator *
Moving and powerful -- Brian Maye * Irish Times *