Janelle Brown is a Los Angeles-based freelance journalist. Having spent four years as a senior writer at Salon, she currently writes for the New York Times and Vogue, amongst others.
A brilliant and very readable portrait of the mother-daughter relationship * Candis * Brown's beauty of a book believably puts it out there that you can go home again, but only if you're willing to genuinely care for and about each other * New York Daily News * A withering Silicon Valley satire . . . Brown's hip narrative reads like a sharp, contemporary twist on The Corrections. * Publishers Weekly * Three Californian women hold centre stage in this likeable tale ... The main characters are sympathetically drawn and their lives adroitly captured * Mail on Sunday * One family, three women and a whole heap of problems collide spectacularly in this highly accomplished debut. But the secrets and lies which shatter this cosy slice of suburbia resonate far and wide * Daily Mirror *