A galloping read...Bingham relishes her period detail and social comedy and adds a touch of whimsy

Theroux at his best

Beautifully paced, sexy and disturbing

Sophie Gee has recreated the real-life scandal that inspired Pope's The Rape Of The Lock to clever, sexy effect, spinning a tale that will appeal to fans of Tracy Chevalier

A clever and inviting piece of critical biography masquerading as a light comedy of manners

Charming and witty...a thoroughly enjoyable submersion in early 18th-century London, when the wittiest writers feasted on the folly of aristocrats...The Scandal of the Season offers both charms and merit, an extravagant costume drama infused with the poet's [Pope's] incisive wit and moral insight

Gee writes with scholarly confidence, underpinning the racy intrigue of her account with a real understanding of the characters and their world

Everything points to an exceptionally stylish and well-researched first novel

Sophie Gee has brought bawdy, chaotic 18th-century London to life with verve

Based on a true story, Gee's novel is lively, amusing and highly evocative of a thrilling age. Who would expect less from a Harvard scholar whose doctoral thesis was on pollution, filth and satire in 18th-century London?

I've recorded all the Jeeves books, and I can tell you this: it's like singing Mozart. The perfection of the phrasing is a physical pleasure. I doubt if any writer in the English language has more perfect music

Wodehouse was quite simply the Bee's Knees. And then some

I constantly find myself drooling with admiration at the sublime way Wodehouse plays with the English language

Quite simply, the master of comic writing at work

To pick up a Wodehouse novel is to find oneself in the presence of genius - no writer has ever given me so much pure enjoyment

Compulsory reading for anyone who has a pig, an aunt - or a sense of humour!

The Wodehouse wit should be registered at Police HQ as a chemical weapon

Witty and effortlessly fluid. His books are laugh-out-loud funny

The funniest writer ever to put words to paper

The greatest comic writer ever

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

Sublime comic genius

He exhausts superlatives

The Everyman edition promises to be a splendid celebration of the divine Plum

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

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