Wonderful, brilliant, witty, amusing, fascinating, excellent.

This is a book that has a good if fanciful storyline, and a really nice style - it's almost as if it is a childrens' book (it isn't) and it's wonderfully heartwarming to read. I loved this book, and couldn't put it down.

There's little more that I can add, to be honest, without giving away too much of the plot: but I would recommend that you read it. I would give it six stars if I could. Or even more. Eight, maybe. Or twenty-seven.

It's a light and easy book to read, and - as always - I read it on the Kindle, which copes perfectly with it.

If you read only one book this year, make it this one. I know lots of people say things like this, but really, genuinely, this book is worth that rather hackneyed phrase.

Wonderful.