“Knowing and playful, fresh and funny, The Jacques Lacan Foundation is both an affectionate satire and a wily celebration of bibliophilia, intellectual glamour, and the institutionalised life of the mind.” Rob Doyle
“Laugh-out-loud funny ... a wonderfully absurd plot ... a wild ride, wearing its intelligence lightly while still performing a detailed critique of a world where politics, capitalism and image-making are almost indistinguishable." Peter Salmon, Prospect Magazine
“Absolute and unremitting irony ... ice-cube cold.” Times Literary Supplement "Sick! In a good way." Stephanie LaCava
The incredible sustained moire effect carried off with such aplomb in Susan Finlay's The Jacques Lacan Foundation - really enjoyable." Tony White
“The Jacques Lacan Foundationis highly recommended. Imagine a working-class Fleabag astray in Malcolm Bradbury’s Mensonge. But in hipsterland Texas!" Andrew Gallix
The Jacques Lacan Foundation is linguistically Nabakovian, it's got Babitz-esque charm, it's experimental, it's satirical, it's fucking hilarious... Destined to become a cult classic." Book Talk
“The Jacques Lacan Foundation is perfectly mordant ... I love how this gorgeous, raucous novel delights in ruffling anyone’s – including its own – desire to be ‘an authentic something’.” Daisy Lafarge
