Amanda Blinkhorn, writing in the Hampstead and Highgate Express described Penniless in Park Lane as a 'sharply observed modern satire on New Labour.'[REF] .
Kim Millar, writing in the Evening Times[REF] described Penniless In Park Lane as 'Hard, cynical and so funny it actually made me cry,' going on to describe it as, 'a brilliant but strangely bleak book'.