Edmund White has three voices. First there is the storyteller, relaxed, conversational, an anecdotalist, an inspired flaneur. Then there is the poet: on every page there lies in wait a metaphor of startling precision, an image that holds and reattracts the eye. And then there is the laic philosopher, who observes human life from the highest altitudes, held aloft by vast infusions of erudition and experience. In Jack Holmes and His Friend, White's trio is in frictionless accord

Martin Amis

This comedy of sexual manners may be White's finest novel

Sunday Times

Wise, funny, sympathetic and richly entertaining novel

Boyd Tonkin, Independent

There's a sleek, close-shaved quality to White's prose that in passages gives it the warm lubicriousness of early Updike and the dry martini sting of Cheever

Financial Times

It will make you smile with admiration

Evening Standard

Marks White out as an immensely gifted chronicler of the intricacies of the human heart

Alex Clark, Guardian