Reviews

“Has all the elements of every great novel.” — The Oxford Daily Messenger

“Oh, marvelous Welby Stitch.” — The Early Morning Intelligencer Review

“A wonderful comic novel.” — The Evening Standard Morning Packet

“Funny, clever and very sexy.” — The East Wallop Flying Post Boy

“A truly divine comedy.” — The New Roman Times Illuminati

“One of the funniest novels ever written.” — The Southbury Weekly Morning Standard

“Erotic and wonderfully unpredictable.” — The New England Gentlemen’s Journal

“Wickedly good. Funny and wise.” — The Hobb’s Knobs Evening Courant

“Subversive, loathsome and completely depraved.” — The Vatican City Daily Organ

“Nothing ever happens in the usual way.” — The Lloyd’s Neck Times Monthly Inquirer

“Wonderfully written.” — The East Bridgehampton News Morning Sentinel

“A remarkable novel.” — The Aldershot Evening Times Gazetteer

“A set of completely unforgettable characters.” — The West Egg Chronicle

“The dialogue is brilliant..” — The Small Island Daily Corresponder

“Vile and disgusting. And there’s so much nudity.” — The Christian Baptist Daily Bundle

“I haven’t enjoyed a novel as much in a very long time. I found it to be a bawdy comedic romance with an extraordinary group of characters. Set in the early 1700’s, it reminded me of ‘Tom Jones’ by Henry Fielding. In the tradition of Fielding, Berry develops a rich and broad picture of an era and uses it as a vehicle to entertainingly explore the weaknesses of humanity and the unpredictable consequences of random circumstance. Berry has a strong visual sense of humor and this well-crafted tale would make a great movie. ‘Welby Stich’ deserves a wide audience.” —
Amazon book review

“With a nod to the satirical style of Lawrence Sterne (Tristram Shandy), Alan Berry has created a wild hybrid of Monty Python, Tom Jones, and Downton Abbey, adding his own distinct thrust of ribald humor. Gird your loins, as you launch into this parody of olde English family epic drama. Welby Stitch is a humorous, sexy, romantic page-turner that is full of wit, irony, slapstick, and buffoonery. Are we witnessing the birth of a new PBS (or, more likely, HBO) series? I hope so.”  —
Amazon book review