Literary Significance and Criticism
- "At once courtroom drama, boarding-school gothic and adolescent confession, The Wives of Bath is a thoroughly modern tale of shifting sexualities. It is also extremely funny. Swan writes with rare verve and flair and has a good line in honesty and penis jokes- the kind that move you to tears and somehow end up making you, like her touching heroine, respect women." ~ Sunday Times
- "A human, humorous and poignant account of growing up female in a world where, as Swan puts it, 'it was just more fun to be a guy'." ~ Claire Messud, Guardian
- "A clever, chilling study of how girls can come to hate themselves and each other for not being boys." ~ Observer
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