All of Brookner's novels are great, but this is one of the best . . . Brookner, though acclaimed, deserves more excitement, more rapture from us. Hotel du Lac and the Booker Prize were a long time ago, and it's not her fault if she has bloomed equally brightly every year without fail. I think we're taking her for granted if we don't jump up and celebrate this book right now

A simple love story... A joyful psalm sung through the collective unconscious that unites all people... fun, fresh and firmly recommended... He is a writer of inspired violence and his shifts of viewpoint are thrilling and significant, and deeply honouring to the profession of literature

[Enjoy] the pleasure of Brink's playful wit and his colonist's skill in surveying an unknown mental landscape

Completely wonderful. Grimly funny, wonderfully wise and ravishingly written

This is Elton at his best - mature, humane, and still a laugh a minute. At least

Only Ben Elton could combine uncomfortable questions about gender politics with a gripping, page-turning narrative and jokes that make you laugh out loud

A very funny book about a sensitive subject ... Ben Elton the writer might even be funniter than Ben Elton the comic

The selections from the greats are generous and well chosen