"The Olympians are immortal—this we all know. But it has taken Marie Phillips' wit to put them back where they belong—into a decrepit 21st-century London bedsit. It is all very, very funny . . . this book charms and provokes in a paragraph. I am writing this in Delphi, dangling my feet in Apollo's sacred spring—the water is said to bring the muse. Phillips clearly has a bottle of it on her desk." —The Times

"Witty and entertaining, Gods Behaving Badly is an auspicious debut that outrageously libels the classical pantheon." —Financial Times

"Ingeniously imagined and satisfyingly lusty. . . . This swaggering caper follows a dark course and . . . the spoilt-brat antics of their other-worldly counterparts are vastly entertaining." —The Guardian

"A joyful frolic. . . . It is all very, very funny and . . . delightfully original as well as acutely clever in a makes-you-think-about-contemporary-morality-without-realising kind of way." —The Independent

"Gods Behaving Badly is much more fun than it has any right to be." —The New York Times

"Funny and unpretentious, witty and readable, Gods Behaving Badly lives up to all its potential." —The Observer

"Absolutely delightful. . . . Part of the charm is in the juxtapositions—the gods are arrogant yet naïve, foul-mouthed but innocent, powerful but pointless. . . . There's enough mordant tang to keep it from becoming just silly, and, at moments, a frisson of real horror." —Scotland on Sunday

"The necessary mythology is filled in rapidly and casually in conversation, so it doesn’t matter how much or little the reader knows about the Greek gods; knowledge will only confirm that Phillips has captured their childish irresponsibility perfectly while amusing her readers with an unlikely successor to Hercules and a touching human love story while she’s about it." —The Spectator

"Phillips has an Olympian sense of absurdity, and there's enough ambrosial wit here to seduce most mortals for an afternoon or two on the divan." —The Washington Post

"Fanciful, humorous and charming, this satire is as sweet as nectar." —Publishers Weekly