Lapped up The Secret History? Then this one's for you . . . Stourton can really write . . . his next move will certainly be worth watching.

An amazingly accomplished debut . . . the writing is elegant, the story decadent.

I love this book. So exhilarating, authentic and vivid. It made me want to become a Cambridge student all over again.

Tightly sprung and compulsively readable

Stourton is a storyteller with perfect poise

A fast-paced novel with a gripping plot

Stourton is a name to watch

Beautifully crafted...a compelling debut of youthful daring. His quietly poetic prose is charming, and there's real warmth and depth here in his explorations of friendship and guilt

Part nostalgic reverie, part taut little thriller, it makes for a promising debut

Wodehouse is so utterly, properly, simply funny

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

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

Sublime comic genius

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