A remarkable debut that is fizzing with ideas...Mordaunt's arrival is something to celebrate

This book is wild and wonderful, and unlike any other Irish book I've read

A high-wire piece of plotting and a whole lot of fun

Airborne from the very first page... Handles his oddball characters with great comic aplomb

It was bold of Roth to write a novel about being famous...a comic stroll in the hall of mirrors

Fluent, funny

[Roth's] narrative hand is wonderfully sure, his comic timing worthy of the Ritz Brothers... Not since Henry MIller has anyone learned to be as funny and compassionate and brutal and plaintive in the space of a paragraph

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

Wilson has done his research impeccably and he writes superbly well