Smee. Rhodes’s novel is gleefully irreverent, with a ribald wit and a truculent disregard for the legal niceties that caused it to remain unpublished for several years. There are, of course, a number of twists, all of which are delivered with very English eccentricity." Herald Scotland comments 'Rhodes's portrait of the fictional Dawkins is on the far side of caricature, so rich in ridicule it makes a lampoon look limp. "My life would be so much easier if everybody was as clever as me," the professor sighs, meanwhile planning his series of children's books. The first will be called Your Parents Are Idiots, "aimed at children unfortunate enough to have been born into religious households"...'At times Rhodes bangs his drum too often and too loud, but he is such a vivid and elegant writer that is quickly forgiven, though perhaps not if your name is Richard Dawkins. Yet behind the mockery lie some deeper reflections: about how people should treat each other, the meaning of respect, and the ingrained need that everyone feels to make sense of our existence.' Tim Martin in The Spectator believes the novel will become a classic, "Rhodes’s book is satire of the broadest stripe: it is, in fact, the closest thing to a strip from Viz magazine that I’ve seen in novel form. The tone swerves hilariously between puerile double-entendre (there’s a running sequence of gags about ‘seeing Upper Bottom’) and lacerating comedy about the atheist movement and its acolytes". Notes References External links Extract from the novel Dan Coxon talks to Dan Rhodes about his latest novel, When the Professor Got Stuck in the Snow, and the difficult decision to self-publish. 2014 British novels Works by Dan Rhodes Self-published books Richard Dawkins Fictional professors