'TV executive, George Mellish ... has separated from his wife, Irene, swapping the station wagon with the plastic seat covers for an MG 'Avenger', leaving the squeak of the matrimonial four-poster for the slurp of the penthouse waterbed.

'Hot to Trot is painfully funny...Mr Lahr has a deadpan face that crumples into attitudes of love or hate or fear or simple disorientation, each expression only revealed long enough for us to register it. In prose, he has the talent of a good early film-maker. Chaplin said he used to write with the camera, and Mr Lahr makes a movie with his ball-point.'

THE TIMES

'Mr Lahr has found the perfect form for love's decline and fall. Hot to Trothappens in short takes, cinematic spatters, as if life had hit the fan.'

NEW YORK TIMES

'Hilarious, confident, wonderfully written.'

NEW YORKER

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