A talented and highly visual writer.
New York Times Book Review

A beautifully layered and subtle novel of identity, with a wonderfully vivid sense of place and character. And it's hesitatingly wise in all sorts of ways, as well as being a deftly constructed page-turner.
Joseph O' Connor

A captivating read
Irish Independent

Poignant, funny and wise . . .
Melissa Clements, FT

Miller is a perceptive writer.
Alexandra Hemingsley, The London Paper

Like Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections without the bitterness, mixed with Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides without the eccentricity, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee is a thoroughly enjoyable and engrossing read.
Sunday Telegraph

Miller writes with a natural poetic flair that's considered and free from affectation.
Easy Living

Vivacious and intense . . . her psychology is often penetrating . . . the writing is rich in striking images.
Mary Flanagan, Independent

Miller's poetic imagery works so well it seems effortless . . . [she writes] with . . . a particularly feminine sensitivity and care.
Lesley McDowell, Scotsman

Miller's quietly devastating examination of ageing, love and loyalty is never less than compelling.
Psychologies Magazine

There is on every page a glint of verbal beauty like a jewel, and Miller's characters are so keenly observed as to be almost painful to read about. The novel's wit and glamour make it one of the best debuts of the year so far.
Philip Womack, Literary Review

An elegant and trenchant study of roles and reinvention.
Tatler

An original voice, with intelligent, spare prose and highly visual imagery . . . a darkly comic story.
Kate Thomson, Books Quarterly

With beautiful simplicity, Miller unravels Pippa's past and celebrates the stirrings of something new.
Kerry Fowler, Good Housekeeping

Miller's prose is always sharp and visual without being overly descriptive. All of the descriptions, whether of people, places or emotions manage to be both prosaic and evocative… Although it had come to a natural and perfectly timed conclusion, I could happily have read much more about Pippa Lee and her secret lives.
Aline O'Conner, Irish Sunday Independent

This intriguing novel is bound to get attention...intelligent, thoughtful writing.
Lucy Atkins, Guardian

A beautifully layered and subtle novel of identity, with a wonderfully vivid sense of place and character. And it's hesitatingly wise in all sorts of ways, as well as being a deftly constructed page-turner.
Joseph O'Connor

Miller is a luminous writer …gazing into these multiple private Pippas is like opening a series of Russian dolls, each intricately wrought, self-contained and self-revealing.
Olivia Laing, Observer

The 'many lives' show that Pippa is not simply 'the woman who loved Herb Lee', and they put her into a vivid context, written with uncompromising confidence…even the talk of angels is carried of well.
Rozalind Dineen, Times Literary Supplement

This compulsively readable novel show real insight into the lives – and roles – of women. Miller writes with a rare mix of warmth, veracity and barbed wit.
Kate Thomson, Waterstone's Books Quarterly

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