This book is one of those books that I really wish I hadn't read, because now that I've read it, I'll never again have the experience of reading it for the first time. I don't recall laughing out loud at a book quite as much as I did whilst reading this one. Thank god I never read it in public. I'd be dragged away.

The characters are excellent creations, there's thinly veiled discussion of feminism and LGBT issues, the dialogue is some of the wittiest I've read outside of a Douglas Adams novel, and the whole thing has a particularly filmic quality - I seem to recall that Marie Phillips used to work in television, and that really does show in her writing. I found myself imagining quite a few scenes as though they were on screen. If only!

Honestly, just an A+ book.