Take a dash of Heartbeat, add a sprinkling of All Creatures Great And Small, throw in a liberal dash of Please Sir! and you have Mister Teacher. It will have you crying tears of laughter and sadness. A joy to read - and perfect for a Sunday night TV series!

A charming memoir

Wonderfully comic

A story that will have you in tears of laughter as well as sadness

A story full of humour and affection

'Classic English humour, with all the slapstick, twists and dry observations you could hope for'

It runs on the fuel of imagination...highly entertaining...an exploration of the elasticity of time and reality

Gripping

A great thriller and a stirring love story

A gripping narrative and a compelling lead character... This is an absorbing and accomplished novel

A very human Cold War thriller

Rooney is a novelist at home with life’s ambiguities, her plotting pleasingly intricate, her narrative richly textured

A captivating read

An exciting and intelligent novel... Rooney's re-creation of the politics of the day is brilliant

Particulary acute on the muddle of emotion, reason and morality that festers around betrayal...compelling, impressively detailed story, with thrillerish overtones...

A wonderfully plotted spy drama full of intrigue and suspense… A fantastic read

Extremely readable

A brilliant spy novel, with an unlikely culprit and a deft, involving plot... Tense, beautifully pitched and very moving

[A] polished, intricate novel… rich in moral ambiguity

This powerfully-written spy thriller is compulsive reading

A gripping spy novel with an unlikely culprit and a thoroughly researched basis in fact... Perfect for fans of William Boyd's Restless