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Brian Nicholls creates an array of memorable characters. A lack of sentimentality is a strength of both McCourt’s (Angela’s Ashes) and Nicholls' memoir, but the national humour and idioms of A Saucepan in the Sky stand out as unmistakably Australian.

I particularly empathised with the days which for no reason at all become mood days and that thing about times where nothing “happens”.

What a mixture! An awkward Aussie, a few screwball mates and four fascinating women. I don't think I've ever read a book before that so revealingly describes the influence a woman can have on a man - for better and for worse!

A wonderful story beautifully told.

Never a dull moment.

The humour and the entertaining bits make one laugh out loud, but underlying this is the layer of pathos and longing. Hyperbole confronts understatement; sensitive and poetic passages of intense sympathy contrast with brutal reality.

I really did enjoy it and – the mark of a good book – I definitely did not want it to end.

So much of it seemed very familiar to my own struggles and wow moments.

Dry, witty, sad, funny and amazingly frank.

Wanderlust talks about things that people think but do not say.

An absolutely delightful read…fascinating.

I reluctantly read the last page and immediately wished for more.