The Bachelor

"[Gibbons has] a marvellous eye for the social scene - no-one is more accurate" "Chipper is the word: Gibbons's heroines are plucky, determined and quietly hedonistic. But she can do melancholy with the best of them, too, not to mention melodrama" Guardian "Stella Gibbons.an exception to that old canard: women can't make us laugh" Independent "The Jane Austen of the 20th century" -- Lynne Truss "Stella is stellar" Sunday Herald