'Sharp, spare, exquisitely observed writing'

Daily Mail

'Jay McInerney is the type of American novelist to whom English readers instinctively warm ... How It Ended is the work of a fine writer on the top of his form'

Sunday Telegraph

'McInerney rarely lets the reader down and the buzz you get from reading How It Ended will last longer than your usual fix'

Tatler

'The best modern stories I have read since James Joyce's Dubliners

Daily Mail