No one better understands the cosmic joke that is humanity. Nor is anyone as funny telling it
Observer
One of the funniest books I've read in a long time
Psychologies
Read it: it is hilarious, often wonderfully perceptive, uncompromisingly ambitious and written by a great master of the English language
Financial Times
Moving and humane... I love this novel... It is beautifully achieved, cunningly relaxed, and reveals considerable emotional depth
Daily Telegraph
The best novelist of his generation
Independent