‘Sharp, funny and richly imagined, this is as timely a warning about rampant consumerism as Orwell’s 1984 was about state control’
Sunday Express

‘This consumer-obsessed, pseudo-Utopian society, with its Waste Pledges and Festival of Choice, is so close to Blair’s Britain that it hurts...An exuberant fable that is a million miles from the current slew of relationship novels. Liz Jensen has more invention and wit in her little finger than all of their creators put together’ Independent

‘A sardonic, free-wheeling take on a possible consumerist future...Bitingly funny, sometimes unsettling, and sometimes surprisingly touching’ Sunday Times

‘Liz Jensen is a true original, beholden to nobody. The Paper Eater is a fururistic satire on consumerism and deliciously funny’ Deborah Moggach, Independent, Books of the Year