The handsome bindings are only the cherry on top of what is already a cake without compare

Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.

He exhausts superlatives

A great summer read

The perfect summer read... with Cooper's trademark puns, a massive cast and lots of sex - it's a winner

An absolute joy

Hilarious, heart warming and intensely moving

Hugely gratifying in the way that only Cooper can be

Triumphantly good

The prospect of Jilly's return, with a novel set in the glamorous international art world and promising "oodles of bad behaviour, intrigue, passion, tears and laughter", will surely cheer all but the most misanthropic

There is enough plot for several novels here (enough sex for dozens), all vividly conveyed in the author's excitable style... Her many fans will not be disappointed

This modern day mythical fantasy is Anne Rice on an epic scale, a hugely imagined world. A chiller thriller from cold of Russia, this one's been selling like hot cakes around the world