‘Like Katherine Heiny and Maria Semple, Mendelson is skilled at rendering the grotesque fascinating. This book would be disturbing, is disturbing , especially on the subject of masculine control, but it is also funny; so funny’
- THE I PAPER

‘Exceptional’ 
- WOMAN & HOME

‘A welcome return for the chronicler of family secrets, with a tale of art, ego and marriage’
- GUARDIAN

‘Mendelson's great success is to make the endless sacrifices, self-conscious denials and forbidden emotions of the Hanrahans heartbreakingly relatable . . . The Exhibitionist is an undeniable success’
- LITERARY REVIEW

'Charlotte Mendelson’s furiously funny fifth novel takes the idea of a toxic family drama and runs wild with it. Over the course of one tempestuous weekend, the unhappy Hanrahans fall apart, their story playing out with a devastating, exuberant glee. .. The cause of all the misery is marvellously monstrous failing artist Ray Hanrahan, who is about to stage the exhibition that will make or break his career. … Honest and frenetically paced, this is a painfully funny look at art, ambition and damaging family dynamics'
- SUNDAY EXPRESS

‘People aren’t supposed to write novels like this one any more: savagely clever books set in large, rambling, arty London houses and concerned almost exclusively with the domestic strifes, concerns and screw-ups of the white middle classes.  Well, thank God they do, particularly when they are as bleakly and relentlessly entertaining a writer as Charlotte Mendelson.  She has bagged a Women’s Prize Longlisting with this… delicious piquant comedy of manners, and Mendelson’s serrated prose will have you wincing at every word’
- DAILY MAIL

‘A compulsive distillation of artistic ego, midlife passion and family dysfunction. It’s set over a single weekend, as folk gather to toast the once famous and still monstrously controlling painter Ray Hanrahan at his comeback exhibition. Among them are his grown children and his downtrodden wife, Lucia, whose own long-neglected artistic career threatens finally to soar. The zestfully crafted drama that follows is hilarious, sexy and thoughtful’
- MAIL ON SUNDAY

'A vivid family portrait…A deluded patriarch sits at the centre of this deliciously evocative novel laced with sex and art’
- Lucy Scholes, FINANCIAL TIMES

‘Charlotte Mendelson’s family dramas — particularly the sharply funny Daughters of Jerusalem (2003) — are almost Shakespearean in their twists and revelations. Her latest is no exception, and the judges of this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction agree: they placed it on their longlist before it hit the shelves… With an electrifying narrative full of life’s messiness, this is a real contender for the Women’s Prize’
- Laura Hackett, SUNDAY TIMES

‘Mendelson’s heady present-tense narration mingles eroticism, absurdity and pathos, capturing the intensity of illicit love, the corrosiveness of bullying, the bottomlessness of narcissism'
- Madeleine Feeny, TELEGRAPH

‘It’s a modern mystery why Charlotte Mendelson, one of the funniest writers in Britain, isn’t a bestseller’
- John Self, THE OBSERVER

‘Mendelson is a master at family drama, and plots don’t get much more dramatic than this … Exhilarating’
- Susie Mesure, THE TIMES