Each of these stories could be expanded into a blockbusting novel. There is no writer alive who inhabits her characters so knowingly, or is able to send up contemporary attitudes and mores as expertly…clever, funny, revealing and a joy to read.

A strong collection about false assumptions and double standards…in these 11 social comedies, whose preoccupations – gender dynamics, celebrity, class, envy and disenchantment – are at once universal and yet specific to the moment we are living through…You Think It, I’ll Say It has caught the attention of Reese Witherspoon, who plans to turn it into a comedy series starring Kristen Wiig. Smart move.

I so loved this collection. One of my favourite books of last year.

Has a rare and magical combination of accessibility, wit, and serious thinking. Sittenfeld was shortlisted for this year’s Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award, and she demonstrates these qualities again in this deft short story collection… Impossible to put down…She is saying what we are thinking.

The stories in You Think It, I’ll Say It feel so contemporary that we might worry they will date – except we’ll want a record of these times. We may be grateful for authors who chose to set their work in this exact political moment, when few Americans can maintain personal relationships across the Trump divide…The immediacy of these stories makes them effortlessly enjoyable to slide into, like new garments so comfortable that you decide to wear them out of the shop.

Fans…won’t be disappointed: the tales here condense lifetimes of confusion, betrayal and bad decisions into perfect miniatures in deadpan American prose.

Clear-eyed and compulsive…Sittenfeld skewers what fraudsters we can be to ourselves and creates characters so vivid you half-expect to bump into them in the street.

This seems to be the year of the short story, and the best ones we’ve read so far are by Curtis Sittenfeld…an outstanding collection of funny, smart and pin-sharp takes on life.

A total treat. Savvy and ruefully wise, she burrows beneath the shiny surface of …her disillusioned lovers, vaguely unhappy parents and dissatisfied employees [who] misjudge other people while in the grip of laughable, delicious self-delusion.

Say the words “Curtis Sittenfeld” to a certain reading demographic and you’ll kick off evangelistic levels of enthusiasm. But it’s for good reason, as no one nails understated humour with human behaviour as she does. This collection of short stories doesn’t disappoint, uniting would-be presidential candidates with Insta-stalking mothers.