Louis de Bernieres is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh... he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste

Beautifully written and riveting

Refreshingly honest, thought-provoking … uplifting' WOMAN

Sewell has talent to burn

Touching

A fine book

An excellent introduction to his sympathetic, refined and humane art, and is a most moving and impressive artefact in itself

A lovely, heartbreaking book

Rare...exquisite...a cameo-like perfection

Compelling, heart-wrenching and laced with redemptive hope . . . Touching and funny

The greatest comic writer ever

P.G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century

Sublime comic genius

You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour

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

Lovely

Moving and intelligent

Magnetic, unpretentious and bursting with one-liners

Jewell's readability and emotional intelligence make her the cream of pop fiction

Fans of chick-lit will understand when I say that this is a book you simply disappear into