Vanity Fair

The best thing he ever wrote - sharp, brilliant, touching, clever and cruel, with an unforgettable heroine

Joanna Trollope

Witty, sexy, sandy-haired Becky Sharp, whose impoverished background explains her hunger for rich men and high position. She is a rebel from the very first chapter of Thackeray's Vanity Fair. Her one final act of kindness derives from her constant virtue: seeing things as they are

Maggie Gee, Independent

A terrific book - bold, funny, scathing and quite unpredictable

Al Murray

Becky Sharp may be one of literature's great schemers, but she's also one of its most memorable and entertaining. More rounded than almost all the simpering Victorian dolls who followed, she alone is worth the read

The Times

Becky Sharp is one of the best bad women in literature ...she is deliciously bad in an era when women were not meant to be

Donna Leon

Still one of the bitchiest, cattiest, funniest and most entertaining novels ever written

Katy Guest, The Independent