This One Is Mine: A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• “A fresh, flamboyantly witty new voice.”

  — Helen Fielding, New York Times bestselling author of Bridget Jones’s Diary

• “[This One Is Mine] is funny, carefully observed, beautifully written, very knowing, and…a real treat.”

  — Merrill Markoe, New York Times bestselling author of Cool, Calm, and Contentious

• “Maria Semple’s remarkable first novel isn’t just a witty, sharp-edged satire about adultery, social climbing, and the absurdities of Los Angeles. On a deeper level, This One is Mine is a complex, unexpectedly moving story about the risks and rewards of love, in all its irrational glory.”

  — Tom Perrotta, New York Times bestselling author of Election and Little Children

• “[A] sharp, funny first novel…This One Is Mine is a delight.”

  — Boston Globe

• “Semple’s takes are tack sharp as her delightful cast is driven comically and tragically ever deeper into a culture of artifice. Semple obviously knows her turf, and she does an exquisite job of stomping all over it.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “Sure to be a hit.”

  — Library Journal

• “This novel will charm readers.”

  — Bookmarks

• “This is a love story with real thorns and a heroine you will weep for.”

  — James Salter, author of Light Years and Last Night

• “This delightful novel gives pleasure on every page.”

  — Phillip Lopate, author of The Aft of the Personal Essay

• A fresh, flamboyantly witty new voice.

  — Helen Fielding, author of Bridget Jones's Diary

• Once I started this book, I couldn't put it down. It is funny, carefully observed, beautifully written, very knowing and in general a real treat. Stop wondering which book to buy. Buy this one.

  — Merrill Markoe, author of Walking in Circles Before Lying Down

• [A] sharp-witted look at having it all in L.A. and wanting more.... Semple has the prime-time satire gene.

  — Seattle Post-Intelligencer

• Maria Semple's remarkable first novel isn't just a witty, sharp-edged satire about adultery, social climbing, and the absurdities of L.A. On a deeper level, This One is Mine is a complex, unexpectedly moving story about the risks and rewards of love, in all its irrational glory.

  — Tom Perrotta, author of Election and Little Children

• Maria Semple begins like a roller coaster, clacking up slowly and ominously and then, Hold on! You are plunging into the great dreamworld of LA money and ambition where nothing is quite real until it breaks apart and suddenly there is the terrible bottom and end of it all. This is a love story with real thorns and a heroine you will weep for.

  — James Salter, author of Light Years and Last Night

• [A] smart and funny debut.... Semple's takes are tack sharp as her delightful cast is driven comically and tragically ever deeper into a culture of artifice. Semple obviously knows her turf, and she does an exquisite job of stomping all over it.

  — Publisher?s Weekly

• Maria Semple writes like a cross between Dorothy Parker and Nathanael West. This One Is Mine is an uncompromising and trenchantly funny portrait of Los Angeles life that rings uncomfortably true.

  — Darren Star, creator of Sex and the City

• Maria Semple delves unafraid, with a sharp eye and sharper hand, into the big issues: Love, Happiness, Life and Death, and emerges with a Los Angeles we never knew, but always suspected. A triumphant debut."—Gigi Levangie Grazer, author of The Starter Wife