David Lodge's novels include Changing Places, Small World, Nice Work, Thinks..., Author, Author and, most recently, Deaf Sentence. He has also written stage plays and screenplays, and several books of literary criticism, including The Art of Fiction, Consciousness and the Novel and The Year of Henry James
Extremely funny and sharply perceptive * Evening Standard * The poignant personal relations and the Hawaiian way of life are recorded with the sardonic perception of a latter-day Evelyn Waugh * Spectator * Further proof that Lodge is master of subtle scintillating satire * Daily Mail * Amusing, accessible, intelligent * Financial Times *