¡®Positively inhalable. I was intensely consumed by the world of Cleopatra and Frankenstein for a few happy days¡¯ The Evening Standard
¡®Friends who couldn¡¯t get enough of Sally Rooney¡¯s Conversations with Friends will fall head over heels for Coco Mellor¡¯s debut novel¡¯ ES Magazine
¡®Cleopatra and Frankenstein, the luminous debut novel from Coco Mellors, is a book about many things: It's a great, swooning love story; a shattering depiction of how addiction and mental illness warp our lives; and a perceptive, witty portrait of globalized New York. But most of all, Mellors has written a devastatingly human book, at turns sharp and tender, that marks her as the rare writer whose sentences are as beautiful as they are wise. An unforgettable read¡¯ Sam Lansky, author of The Gilded Razor and Broken People
¡®A character driven epic thoroughly engrossing and entirely magnificent. It is thrilling to read a book that articles with nuance and compassion the way gender impacts every part of our lives. Sometimes you can just tell that a debut novel has been percolating and perfecting inside an author's mind until it is ready to leap into-and ultimately change-the world¡¯ Adam Eli, author of The Queer Conscience
¡°Mellors¡¯ remarkably assured and sensitive debut ¡¦ strongly evoke[s] Hanya Yanagihara¡¯s A Little Life¡¦ At its core, it¡¯s a novel about how love and lovers are easily misinterpreted and how romantic troubles affect friends and family. A canny and engrossing rewiring of the big-city romance.¡±¡ªKirkus Reviews, starred review
¡®Insistent, stylish and utterly captivating, the prose just sings.¡¯ Heidi James, author of, The Sound Mirror