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

A cross between Neuromancer and Thomas Pynchon's Vineland. This is no mere hyperbole

Brilliantly realized. Stephenson [is] an engaging guide to an onrushing tomorrow

A fantastic, slam-bang-overdrive, supersurrealistic, comic-spooky whirl through a tomorrow that is already happening. Stephenson is intelligent, perceptive, hip

Like a Pynchon novel with the brakes removed

A fun read, the novel's charm lies in its quirky humour

This is poignant, quirky and delightfully original

Confirms that she's a writer to watch

A delightful tale

This is an assured second novel - and wonderful company for that long-overdue summer trip

Imaginative and transporting, but entirely unfussy and unsentimental, the novel is written with a glint in the eye that gives it that extra bit of wind beneath its wings