It’s probably not the best but it’s certainly the most fun and enjoyable Major Critically Acclaimed Important Novel of the 21st century. You dig Dickens, right? Big novels with a sprawling cast of characters, social observation of hot topic contemporary issues, comic humanism, and improbable plot twists, set in the Big Smoke? I know she’s personally sick to death of the comparisons. And her debut was published when she was 25!