I thought this was amazing, really astonishingly good. If I have to be picky, I would admit that I didn't think the last 50 or so pages were of quite the same quality as the rest - the ending was a little underwhelming. But that pales in comparison to the rest - dense, complex, and with a consistently compassionate and observant humour that leaves no character unskewered and yet is somehow still kind to them in their skewering. I'd like to describe it as thought-provoking (and it is) but if I had to plump for a single descriptor it would be delightful, because I was bloody charmed.