deftly captures the giddy thrill of first love but also hints that a gut-wrenching tragedy is coming. The result is an incredibly poignant film exploring how love and loss are often horribly intertwined.

A sweet, gay romance that gradually morphs into something more suspenseful and macabre

A compelling chronicle of love and loss... His most intricate and fully imagined novel

Irving's storytelling has never been better

His best since Garp

Irving's most entertaining and persuasive novel since The World According to Garp

A joy to read

A 21st century London update of American Psycho

Very slick and very British; a tricky combo to pull off

A slice of bleakly comic urban paranoia

Sutton's black comedy is not only a timely reminder of how we were all suckered by the credit boom, but also a gripping read

If you like your stories spoon-fed, this might not be the novel for you. If you can abandon the cutlery, hand sanitiser and table manners - tuck in

A cross between Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho and Martin Amis's Money

Its ace, addictive and enthralling

Blisteringly angry..,begins as a black comedy but gradually turns much darker with the mad-as-hell narrator suspected of murdering his lovers in London

Sutton shows us everything through Freeman's eyes and he pulls it off very well indeed. A horrible character but a compelling narrator

Sutton shows us everything through Freeman's eyes and he pulls it off very well indeed

This darkly comic novel with it's brilliantly acute observations of life in London in the 21st Century completely captures the zeitgeist and raises more than a few laughs.

Gripping and darkly comic tale of 21st-century material greed