‘His wit is devastative his eye for detail exacting, his prose polished, serpentine elegant and deadly… as savvy and savage as Evelyn Waugh… as dazzlingly inventive and bizarrely original as P.G. Wodehouse.’

‘A farce touching fingers with a rich comic vision… sublime orgiastic satire.’

‘Sharpe is the funniest novelist currently writing… I sat curled up with laughter.’