Serotonin

Exhilarating in its nihilism, often very funny and always enjoyable... Serotonin burns with anger... [Michel Houellebecq is] the most interesting novelist of our times'
* Evening Standard *

Houellebecq has once again managed to put his finger on modern French (and Western) society's wounds, and it hurts
* Economist *

Any new book by Houellebecq is guaranteed to make waves, and Serotonin is no exception ... A bleak, uncompromising novel. But it also feels like an important one, asking some necessary questions in characteristically mordant fashion
* Mail on Sunday *

A cautionary tale about dissipated manhood... Houellebecq may be, in certain respects, a man for our times
* Literary Review *

While Houellebecq is provocative and at times deliberately controversial, his success is not based solely on his ability to shock. He also has a beautiful fluid writing style...and an uncanny ability to evoke the spleen that for him is at the core of existence
* Irish Times *

The author's prescience has certainly proved as eerie as his reported politics are contentious, yet Serotonin's brilliance far exceeds its accuracy as a cultural barometer... Houellebecq is a disarmingly rich and nuanced writer; Serotonin is mordant, haunting but never (quite) embittered
Lisa Hilton * TLS *