They make me cry with laughter ... I think he's one of the great geniuses

Tom Sharpe is in top form ... outrageously funny ... Left-wing academics, right-wing capitalists, true-blue country gentry, workers, peasants, police and lawyers - all take custard pies full in the face in this boisterous knockabout farce

A novelist who has broken out of the pack, established a wholly distinctive style ... such a keen eye for the ridiculous and marvellous ability to puncture it

An immense gift for social satire ... the action is unflagging

There’s almost no one funnier

Then is a devastatingly dark story, and the hypnotic quality of its writing, and the searing vision it lays before us, certainly appear to have sprung from a deep and frightening source

The eeriness of the world outside is conveyed well; as are the horrors that beset the survivors... It is highly readable and involving, offering tantalising clues as the reader tries to navigate the grisly streets of London and the dark corners of the narrator's mind...but the central human narrative is strong and clear, proving that even in darkness there are points of light

One of Myerson's strength's lies in creating atmosphere... Myerson sees the pathos in small details

At first this genre-bending novel feels like a departure for Myerson, but familiar themes kick in – injured children, broken homes, psychological torment. It’s a chilling and original portrait of breakdown

Myerson displays a deft touch at providing the reader with telling, troubling details, clues to what might have happened. Unremittingly bleak, Then is a novel about memory as a woman tries to piece together the fragments of her past

A really compelling story