An irresistible novel by multi-talented Stephen Fry, author, film and television star, playwright and newspaper columnist.

""The spirits of Oscar Wilde and Evelyn Waugh glower benignly over this very funny first novel . . . An ingenious plot filled with surprises and glittering with hilarious, often indecent inventions.""—The New York Times Book Review

""Transforms the sophomoric into the sophisticated.""—Los Angeles Times