Reviews round-up
Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
by Claire-Louise Bennett
5 of 5 critics positive
9 reviews: 1 rave, 4 positives; 4 not stating a verdict in public
What the critics said
“Beguiling Novel, a ‘Big Kiss’ From a Modern Master”
In This Beguiling Novel, a ‘Big Kiss’ From a Modern Master
“serves up a striking novel about a writer’s retreat into solitude”
Big Kiss, Bye-Bye by Claire-Louise Bennett
“Novel That Understands Where Romance Is Going”
A Novel That Understands Where Romance Is Going
“Desperate, intelligent, irreverent”
Desperate, intelligent, irreverent: in Big Kiss, Bye-Bye, Claire-Louise Bennett breaks up with illusions
“a stylish and uncompromising portrait of a woman's emotional life”
The men in my life — petty, maddening and funny
Maureen N. McLane · She is the situation: ‘Big Kiss, Bye-Bye’
Big Kiss, Bye-Bye by Claire-Louise Bennett review – remembering terrible men
Big Kiss, Bye-Bye by Claire-Louise Bennett: the elusiveness of human connection
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