A collection of fourteen stories containing a broad cast of amusing characters involved in adventures which are by turns funny, ingenious and moving.

'Nicholas Coleridge's stories are compelling and very funny? This collection is a treat of a high order'
Angela Huth, Daily Mail

'Modern morality tales in which the greedy, the mean-spirited, the bullying and the duplicitous get their just deserts? Unaffectedly funny'
Spectator

'Desire disappoints, satisfied greed backfires and trophies turn sour as soon as bagged. Nick Colridge's tales exude short, sharp, chic. They're literary banana skins on which rich, polished and often well-travelled characters take a deserved designer tumble'
Company

'Bright, stylish anecdotes? Coleridge deftly manipulates his plot so that the last sentence delivers the unexpected pay-ff'
Literary Review

Coleridge is relentlessly bright. His tone is brisk, intelligent, positive'
Independent on Sunday