Wonderfully quirky. If you love (or even hate) Dickens this is really worth listening to. From the truth about pregnancy (at least for some politicians) to what those Martians really looked like, this is a fun ride.
I am a big fan of Radio 4 comedy Bleak Expectations - this book is a novelisation of the first series and, to me at least, it felt like a pretty close match. That is not a good thing. The trouble is that the radio play has an absolutely stellar cast. The book has ... all these great lines which I'm ...