‘Sensual and satin-soft, reading it is like dropping milk chocolates into your mouth while reclining (naked, naturally) on a goosefeather eiderdown’
—Guardian

‘The writing is lyrical, at times breathtakingly so ... a genuine delight’
—Antiquarian Book Review

‘Like Dahl, her book resists whimsy while celebrating the whimsical, and avoids sentiment in favour of a dry, earthy humour, bordering on the bawdy ... that the book never feels contrived is a testament to both Dahl’s skill with her pen, and her collaborator’s with her paintbrush’
—Daily Telegraph

‘I read the book last night, and am enchanted by everything — its spirit, Sophie's voice, which is pitched for perfection somewhere in the midst of the Dud Avocado, I Capture the Castle, and Eloise at the Plaza — and the heavenly illustrations with that pink dog like an amorphous pearl. Lovely, lovely and the sweet peas on the cover are divine. Well done, it’s a joy’
—Raffaella Barker

‘The Man with the Dancing Eyes, illustrated by her childhood friend Annie Morris (in a latter-day version of the Dahl-and-Blake collaboration), is as slim and delectable as Sophie herself’
—New Statesman

‘The Man with the Dancing Eyes is a delicate, lilting story, underpinned by sharp humour. The writing is arresting, well matched by Morris’s elegant, wry watercolours … Dahl’s intelligence “sticks out like a sore thumb” in the fashion world’
—Bookseller

‘Dahl can turn a phrase. The text is charming and bears comparison with Eloise at the Plaza … I think Sophie should write more books’
—Daily Telegraph

‘Gorgeously illustrated ... a charming romance’
—Herald Magazine