""I began Under the Frog on a crowded double decker in a London traffic jam...and soon found myself laughing like an idiot... It is a triumph...painfully moving, it is also uproariously funny"" Guardian ""A remarkable first novel"" Daily Telegraph ""Original and impressive... Sharp, funny and moving"" Independent ""A quite wonderful book... He takes a serious subject...and is seriously funny about it...the result is plausible, insolent, sophisticated and hungry... Glorious!"" -- Michael Hoffman ""A funny, slangy, tragic, impeccably researched romp... A richly convincing line-up of skivers, copulators, opportunists and, above all, survivors in the face of oppression"" Independent on Sunday