BUY FROM AMAZON‘The Best Possible Taste is a comedy for grown-ups that reveals Sam O’Reilly as a writer to watch. Balancing funny-ha ha with funny-ouch, treading a fine line between disapproval and sympathy, it fearlessly explores the question of what future is left for hopelessly male men now that women are so much better at everything.’
– Patrick Gale
‘This is one of those novels where you’re nodding all the way through at the lines which ring true; observations on being a parent, and on the balancing act that is marriage, and the difference between how you want to look to other people and the way you actually come across. Although the main character’s a bit of a (self-confessed) fool, you end up really rooting for him because you can sympathise with so many of his dilemmas. O’Reilly gets just the right mixture of humour and pathos for a thoroughly entertaining read.’
– Kate Long, author of The Bad Mother’s Handbook
‘O’Reilly is a clever story-teller who keeps you hooked right to the last line. What she says about the relationship between a father and his estranged children will ring true to anyone who’s been in that situation. And the ending? A fine one for Christmas.’
– Tom Boncza-Tomaszewski, Independent