A complete triumph ... An energetic combination of detective story and road trip

Daily Telegraph

Darkly humorous depictions of how any person can be victimised by identity thieves

Sunday Times

[Boyle] is unashamedly an entertainer, peerless in his ability to swing between high and low culture

Time Out

Talk Talk stands out as nothing short of an uncomfortable masterpiece - as simultaneously overwhelming, treacherous, beautiful and boiling over with hellacious revelation as its ultimate subject: life in twentieth-century America

Los Angeles Times

Talk Talk opens at full throttle and never slackens ... A rage so intense that it overtakes reasons runs through the book like a superhighway

San Francisco Chronicle

No American novelist can touch him ... the novel flies along on the power of Boyle's propulsive and exquisitely perceptive prose

Entertainment Weekly