Bob Mortimer speaks my language - I grew up with his humour, catching Shooting Stars and Big Night Out, amongst others, in the evenings after school. I knew what I was in for, and it's exactly why I picked up the book - surreal humour.

But the book is actually pretty tame on this. The decision to make it 'book-like' might have limited Bob in this regard. In the end, you have a perfectly readable 'holiday book'; not too complex, easy to follow, enough to keep you going - but it never tested me as a reader, and it didn't stray into anything challenging.

As the book draws on, the surreal drops away to reveal a light plot - which held my attention to the end, but was only 'satisfying'.

All that being said, I enjoyed reading it! And there are some great little moments in here in which Bob's vision of the world really shines through. His descriptions, at points, are impeccable.