"An excellent, very readable book telling the story of Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky's world championship match. You don't need to know a single thing about chess to read this."
"Possibly the best Tom Sharpe farce I've read. Most of his books involve making the upper class and those in authority appear ridiculous, and this one is brilliant at doing that."
"At times I thought the author was being patronising to Botswanans, painting them all as simple people, but the story is so lovely that you can live with those and rejoice in the loveliness of the book"
"I really enjoyed this, it was a page-turner, sweet and lovely. Yes, you know exactly what it is you're going to get, but as chick-lit/women's fiction goes, it's a superb example of the genre."
"A combination of Life on Mars, Big and Quantum Leap. It was quirky enough to be nowhere near traditional chick-lit whilst keeping some of the themes you get in other books of this genre."
"Madcap and zany - in the good sense, not the 'ironic' sense. Witty, clever and warm. I really liked the two lead characters, they were very well written."
"A fictional 'Fast Food Nation'. An absolutely stunning book. The story is beautifully written. How the lives of the two main characters develop is incredibly well written."
