‘Barker takes supposedly archaic concepts like realness, honesty and integrity and renders them so new they seem almost futuristic. A hilarious, important novel. A correct and a real one. There is something in the writing that is wild in a virtuosic way and, needless to say, hugely intelligent’ Isabel Waidner

‘It is hard to understand how so many different kinds of pleasure could be packed into one short volume. This book is extremely funny. It is deliriously pacy. It radiates with righteousness and purity of heart. It is truly unusual and truly new and it proves, once again, that Nicola Barker is a tribune of the human imagination’ Aidan Cottrell-Boyce

‘There is a direct river running from Chaucer, through Laurence Sterne and William Blake, picking up jetsam from Angela Carter and Martin Amis and erupting wonderfully in Nicola Barker, one of Britain’s Greatest novelists. TonyInterrupter is a joyous and exhilarating ride which pushes you through the rabbit warren of art, literature and the human soul. I always feel so vividly alive after reading her work’ Camilla Grudova

‘A blizzard of a novel - an account of disobedience and transformation; connection and departure. Barker's characters collide with one another gleefully, and the use of language is sublime. I found myself bouncing from one page to the next’ Fiona Mozley

‘Jazz and punk all at once, TonyInterruptor is a wild novel of ideas, where the ideas are live and perilous, bristling out of Barker’s singular characters and her own wonderfully idiosyncratic style. No one writes like Barker. She is a glorious self-interruptor whose improvisations and seeming digressions are always taking us closer to something transcendent. Tonyinterruptor is a wise, funny, spiritual and deeply human novel’ Ben Masters