'It's a long time since I read a book that was so consistently enjoyable. The whole novel, while tough and disenchanted, increases your appetite for life." -Eastern Daily Press 'A strange and comic odyssey, too complicated to summarize, but a joy to read." -"Daily Telegraph '"Pocock and Pitt" is philosophical, witty and erudite, wise and exciting and one of the best novels I have read this year." -"Irish Times 'Elliott Baker is one of the wittiest of American authors. Quite rightly, this is a 'one of a kind" fiction." -"The Scotsman