Praise for THE UNFORTUNATES 'Laurie Graham is a writer with a remarkably malleable comic voice.' Alex Clark, The Guardian 'Fresh, funny and smart, a novel that reels from the Titanic to jazz age New York.' Observer 'This wildly funny novel...is often on the brink of being a wildly tragic one.' The Sunday Times 'A compelling read' Hello! 'Poppy Minkel is a wonderfully original, naive character, and Graham injects her with the same eccentric humour all her protagonists share, making it impossible not to love her. A fantastic, engrosssing read.' Glamour Praise for THE FUTURE HOMEMAKERS OF AMERICA: My 'Leave-the-phone-off-the-hook' book of the year. Wonderful.' Val Hennessy, Daily Mail 'Graham has wit and insight to match Nick Hornby, and the entertainment value of Helen Fielding.' Nicolette Jones, Independent 'Superlative. The writing sparkles from first to last.' David Robson, Sunday Telegraph 'Life-affirming. Pure pleasure.' Katie Owen, The Times 'Laugh-out-loud funny; intelligent; moving; has more delicious roll-off-the-tongue one-liners than Seinfeld. One of those books you buy six copies of to send to all your old friends.' Julie Morrice, Scotsman

Laurie Graham is a former Daily Telegraph columnist and Contributing Editor to She. The Future Homemakers of America, also published by Fourth Estate, was her sixth novel. She is currently writing radio plays and working on her next novel.