Gambotto ... has the soul and style of a poet (Dylan Thomas came to my mind) ... a rapier wit and a mastery of the English language. I guarantee you have never read love scenes as beautifully and passionately phrased as these.

- The Bulletin (USA)

Multi-layered and shimmering.

- Liquid Space Digital

Gambotto possesses a major literary talent.

- Who

Dynasty written by a young Martin Amis on speed - full of gilded aristocrats, spleen and sex ... Tom Jones eat your heart out - Angelica leaves you for dead.

- Tempo

The detail of the fiction verges on social reality - a warts and all rundown on Australian, American and UK society ... an erotic journey of self-acknowledgment ... Brilliance.

- Harper’s Bazaar

A brilliant first novel.

- Cosmopolitan

The writing is... like being unable to stop staring into the sun when you've been told it damages your eyes ... [Gambotto's] picture of the London literary scene is without rival.

- The Age

A hybrid of Kierkegaard and gonzo Evelyn Waugh. I absolutely loved it.

- Mat Snow, editor of Four Four Two

Incredibly sexy ... Sharply observant and at times almost brutal, [Gambotto] has an exquisite ability to dissect pomp and vanity. A brilliant read.

- Fairlady

Poetical writing of the A.S. Byatt school.

- The Weekend Australian

Gambotto writes with great sensitivity and also has a keen eye for satire, which she uses to great effect.

- Tatler (Book of the Month)

A triumph as a work of fiction.

- The Brisbane News

Beautiful … florid and ornamental, lavish and extravagant.

- The Daily Telegraph

Definitely not for the faint-hearted, but fans of Jay McInerney, Tom Wolfe or T. Coraghessan Boyle will enjoy this fierce bite into late twentieth century society life ... Gambotto has successfully combined humour, sarcasm and insight to write a novel that cuts through the polished facade ... Read it with grim and delighted pleasure.

- The Herald Sun

Gambotto has hit on a winning formula - all life’s excesses and vicissitudes are no match for her main character.

- The Morning Bulletin

A Victorian gothic moral tale crossed with Jackie Collins’ Hollywood Wives.

- Inside Melbourne

This novel has it all - sex (lots and lots), adultery, murder, drugs, breakdowns and child abuse - with all the action underpinned by an obsessively passionate love story ... beautifully written, heavily descriptive, laden with caustic wit and cynicism and very, very amusing.

- Cleo

Dense and lush ... the story of Angelica, a frighteningly intelligent young woman from a rich and privileged family who, after losing her beloved father, withdraws into a private world of deep thought and longed-for love ... Eventually [she] meets her angel/soulmate ... and is consumed by a spiritual and physical love so intense it is as if her sole reason for being is to consume him and be consumed by him ... beautiful and incisive prose.

- Townsville Bulletin

Angelica, a stunningly beautiful heiress who was raised in England, is sexually athletic and deliciously wealthy ... kinky.

- The Times (UK)

Gambotto ... ignores the publishing convention that the average reader has the working vocabulary of a twelve-year-old ... [her] use of imagery and metaphor thus transcends most popular literature ... well worth reading.

- TableAus

The empathy and passion of a Bronte novel.

- The Sunday Times

Gambotto's portrait of modern society is painfully sharp and brings her journalist's eye to a new level. Her style, too, unfurls with cool control. Should set the tongues wagging ...

- Sunday Life!

Full of sex, caustic wit, glamorous people and plenty of wicked dialogue, The Pure Weight of the Heart ... is an ambitious and controversial debut. The characters are larger than life: the entrepreneurial stepfather; the stoned globetrotting model; the amoral artist; the naive American rich girl in pastel cashmere; the bitter socialite ... in spite of the rape, incest, death and dying, [it] is a shamelessly romantic love story.

- Melbourne Citysearch

Out of the garret and onto the must-buy lists of [shoppers] all over the country.

- Panorama

Brilliant! Move over, Anais Nin!

- The Sydney Morning Herald

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