Jolly Foul Play – Four Star Telegraph Review

March 20, 2016

JFP Telegraph review 19 Mar 2016

This weekend, Jolly Foul Play was reviewed in the Telegraph. I’m completely delighted – this is an incredible honour – and they’ve given it an amazing write-up.

From the (four star!) review: ‘Robin Stevens has cleverly created a crossbreed of the detective and boarding school genres … [Stevens creates] a credible portrait of a lost age, but also one in which she can allude to issues familiar to modern readers.’

You can read it in full below!

 

JFP Telegraph review 19 Mar 2016

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