Attachment

A searing tale of middle-aged anxiety, so accomplished and pertinent, witty and wise

Independent on Sunday

Fonseca possesses a wonderful eye and vocabulary for the observable world, a natural gift for portraiture and a nasty wit about characters we're not supposed to like... All is perfectly suited to her complex subject, one worth taking seriously: the difficulty of loving someone you already love, and its corollary, the stony impenetrability of others

Richard Ford

An impressive debut...it is insistent, weighty, carefully and densely composed....this is an adult book in all respects, reflecting, with an inquiring intelligence and emotional honesty

Time Out

She has an expressive turn of phrase and a gift for evoking a sense of place

Sunday Times

Attachment faces the uncomfortable subject of female ageing with wry, disabused humour...read her book on its own feminist terms'

The Times

Fonseca's prose is fluent, confident and often funny ... she has a gift for satire that glimmers through this novel. And a near-perfect ear for nuances of speech. Attachment is ferociously well observed. Both physiologically and socially ... as a first novel, the signs of greater things are clearly there

Guardian

Fonseca's voice - poised, particular, exotic - rises above her plot

Observer

Her prose is elegant and wry

Daily Telegraph

Fonseca's talent lies in describing the texture of daily life: the mango with a 'skin like sunset', the pizza boxes that open 'like laptops' ... she is good on the sweep of history and the cultural climate of previous times ... telling details of character - particularly the male characters, are captured well

New Statesman