The 29 November issue of the Church Times carries a long and affectionate review of Will Noble’s book, by a Croydonian member of the clergy. For Peter Graystone ‘Will Noble’s delightful and extremely funny book is a love letter to the southernmost borough of London - a town that throughout its history has repeatedly aimed high, dazzled, crashed, and burned.’ ‘For a Croydonian such as I am, every page contains another nostalgic pleasure,’ he declares, before wondering, ‘Will it have the same appeal for someone who has never visited?’ His conclusion is that the stories of such protagonists of Croydon’s history as Amy Johnson and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor ‘are told with such aplomb that they have a universal appeal.’