"So many books are described as hilarious and so very few are. But Niven knows his comedy, and he treads where others fear to go . When the writing's this good, and this urgent, I'll take the swagger, too. Indeed, and I can barely believe it myself, these are some of the passages of The Fathers I enjoyed most of all" iNews "An acid-drop sharp exploration of modern fatherhood" iPaper "Niven is on fine form, inventive and excruciatingly funny, but beneath his darkly comic prose lurks a hitherto unseen tenderness" Mail on Sunday "A witty account of parenthood and masculinity" Independent "The novel is laugh out loud funny at points but its serious intentions are many. Inequality, criminality, substance abuse, class, social and economic horizons and even housing are themes which linger under the surface, alongside the numbing, dizzying forces unleashed by grief. Niven broaches all these things nimbly though.[with] smart, funny, laser-focussed prose" Herald "The Fathers continues to examine tough subjects that aren't often explored from a male perspective, like fertility and grief" Sunday Post.