Upon publication the
Manchester Evening News described the volume as Cooper "at her rib-tickling" best. The
Toronto Star, in a 1983 review of the book described how Cooper had a "vast readership, not all admiring" and went on to describe her as the "hyena priestess of English journalism". It compared her to the American writers
Jimmy Breslin and
Dorothy Parker and the English diarist
Samuel Pepys. It highlighted the critical nature of many of her observations, including those on Australia and the feminist magazine
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