A riveting read about fame, myth-making and finding your own identity
- Good Housekeeping
There are many things to enjoy in Nicole Flattery's debut novel ... Mae is an engaging protagonist with a wit about her coming-of-age struggles
- Independent
Nothing Special confirms Flattery as a bracingly original writer; her observations clear-eyed and cool-headed, never pretentious. Readers may be tempted to underline every other sentence in this striking debut from an exciting new voice'
- Irish Independent
This debut novel is that rare thing, an original, off-kilter coming-of-age story, in which life and art collide in unsettling ways
- Mail on Sunday
[A] blade-sharp coming-of-age debut novel . . . [Flattery] captures the absurdity and the pain, the texture of city streets and the squalid luxury, and brings a deadpan wit to the whole sex and drugs and Pop-art scene
- Spectator
If you've ever found yourself obsessing over Edie Sedgwick (her biography by Jean Stein is a must-read) then Nothing Special will be right up your street. Set against 60s New York and Andy Warhol's Factory, this is a coming-of-age story that conjures up t
- Stylist, Highlights for 2023
Nothing Special is as stylishly written as its predecessor Show Them a Good Time. Indeed there are shades of Saul Bellow, in her rendering of New York that 'shrieking cartoon hell' . . . [Flattery] deserves only praise
- Sunday Independent
Flattery is a keen observer of relational dynamics in groups of women, and how these connections can both support and strangle. Her characters feel complicated and real
- Telegraph, Highlights for 2023
Nicole Flattery's treatment of determined, bewildered young women - as they discover the vast distance between how they are perceived and how they feel themselves to be - is brilliantly gloomy, droll and so out-of-body as to be real . . .They try on and t
- Caoilinn Hughes
