Pin-sharp and teeming with gloriously reprehensible characters * Mail on Sunday *
The work of a master * Sunday Times *
Effortlessly brilliant . . . a comedy of London life which tastes as fresh as a new-baked croissant * Sunday Telegraph *
Waterhouse . . . at his most entertaining and mischievous * Daily Express *
As well as being a fast-paced farce, a string of encounters and incidents that could keep a full pub of people entertained for several evenings on end, [it] is an elegy to a vanishing world. Soho the place may not be quite what it was, but in Soho the novel, Waterhouse brings it vibrantly to life * Glasgow Herald *
A wonderful evocation of a part of London the author loves and he has succeeded superbly in capturing its sleazy yet alluring nature * Tribune *
Quite easily the wittiest and best chronicler of contemporary life
His comic evocation of place and people and his humane descriptions of Soho's lowlife bring the present and the past effortlessly together. * Claire Allfree, Metro *
You stay gripped from the opening paragraph ... It crackles with insight about the nature of sexual obsession
Waterhouse uses Alex's saucer-eyed awareness of So-oh's otherness to take the reader on a wistful and gently amusing trawl through the area. Even episodes of sexual perversion and murder are recounted with a deft lightness of touch, though a metropolitan cynicism lurks on the peripheries of this entertaining farce. * Chris Power, The Times *
Keith Waterhouse's satire of London life is pin-sharp and teeming with gloriously reprehensible characters. He is one of Britain's finest journalists. SOHO is a timely reminder of how good a storyteller he is. * Simon Shaw, Mail on Sunday *
He can be angrily oratorical, bluntly rude, soberly informative, boozily clownish, but cannot stop being very, very funny
A treat for sore brains
With its breakneck pacing and kinetic characters, SOHO captures the ever- morphing nature of the area.
highly entertaining. Rather like a night out in Soho.
A timely reminder of how good a storyteller he is. * Simon Shaw, Mail on Sunday *
