“Sarah Dunn is a wise and brilliant writer who doesn’t sacrifice emotional complexity for low humor – she gives you both.”
-- Time magazine

"Holly Frick is the kind of character many women readers will immediately identify with. Not because she’s reeling from a humiliating divorce from a man she still loves and shooting blanks in the brutal dating world, which she is. Not because she adopts a dog with brain cancer or tries to talk her married friend out of an affair. It’s because the hapless protagonist of this topical novel is such a clever observer of modern life, offering a wealth of Exacto-sharp theories that echo sentiments we may feel but would hesitate to express. Sex still surprises Holly as something that’s “so darn intimate”; she suspects she’s “stuck in an abusive relationship” with New York City; and she balks at Buddhism because she “can’t get behind a religion that doesn’t have a God.” Charming and approaching Tina-Fey funny, Dunn, whose first novel was The Big Love (no connection to the HBO series), combines crackling dialogue and absurdly real-feeling scenarios to create a big-city smart, yet universally appealing, little gem."
-- People Magazine

“Sarah Dunn's Secrets to Happiness zips along hilariously, fueled by pitch-perfect dialogue…[It] is an antic urban comedy, with enough neurotic characters to fill the cast of a Woody Allen movie. It's great fun.”
-- The Boston Globe

"Secrets to Happiness is smart, bitingly funny, laced with sitcom-sharp dialogue and bittersweet."
-- The New York Observer

“Sarah Dunn… mixes in extra ingredients like faith and spirituality that turn her books into a literary feast that few of her counterparts manage.”
-- The Miami Herald

"Ms. Dunn shuttles her characters around New York with deft precision, weaving their lives together seamlessly."
-- The Wall Street Journal

"Secrets...makes for good, sharp fun."
-- Entertainment Weekly

"Witty, insightful...Bumping it up to the top of its chick-lit genre is Dunn's writing style -- clever, subtle, and engaging."
-- The Free Lance-Star, Fredericksburg, VA

“A savory treat” packed with “dogs, divorce and dizzying dysfunction.”
-- Marie Claire

"I love this book.  Sarah Dunn is very funny, that's the first thing to say.  But she is also deep, interesting and subtle.  Her characters could be my friends and yet they utterly surprise me.  She is so smart about life and society and the complex and contradictory ways our hearts behave.  "Oh that is so true."  As I read Secrets to Happiness, I found myself thinking that again and again and again."
--- Delia Ephron, author of Hanging Up and co-writer of You've Got Mail 
 
"Secrets to Happiness is a fun, insightful portrait of the urban professional woman, and mercifully devoid of shoe shopping scenes. Sarah Dunn is a terrifically talented writer with a brilliant sense of comic timing."
--- Christopher Moore, author Lamb and A Dirty Job 
 
"A smart, heartwarmingly funny story about modern love in the city. Secrets to Happiness is brimming with Sarah Dunn's vivid characters and engaging voice and will linger long after you've finished the last page. I love this book!"
--- Emily Giffin, author of Love the One You're With, and Something Borrowed 
 
"Sarah Dunn achieves what so many authors set out to do but so few manage: she captures the Zeitgeist. If you can imagine a cross between Candace Bushnell and Edith Wharton, that is Sarah Dunn."
--- Toby Young, author of How to Lose Friends & Alienate People 
 
“Holly Frick is smart and sassy, loyal and dedicated. All the qualities a woman could want in a girlfriend, but not the ones that seem to resonate with men, if her roster of failed relationships is any indicator. There’s her ex-husband, Alex, with whom she’s still in love; her ex-boyfriend, Spence, a womanizing creep whom Holly scathingly immortalized in her first novel; and Lucas, a 22-year-old boy-toy who, for all his playful sexuality, ultimately makes Holly feel like a cradle-robbing matron. But then she meets Jack, an opinionated Buddhist who is having an affair with her married best friend; and even though Holly takes an immediate dislike to him, she has to admit there’s something undeniable lurking just beneath the surface. Dunn displays a rapier wit; a perfectly nuanced gift for savvy, sophisticated dialog; and an endearing moral compass, which she uses to great advantage as she blithely navigates the fraught and fatuous world of trendy New York’s treacherous dating scene.”
-- Booklist

"Sharp-witted Dunn follows her debut (The Big Love, 2004) with a ... tale simultaneously elevated by its snappy humor and tinged by some reflective shading....  Deft repartee and happy endings all around don’t entirely erase the underlying bleakness in this smart chick-lit tale with dark undertones."
--- Kirkus 

"Dunn charts several New Yorkers' lives in this snappy novel.....  the energetic and witty prose speeds along the narrative. It's smarter than the usual single-in-the-city fare, and funnier, too."
--- Publishers Weekly