The Pregnant Widow

No one better understands the cosmic joke that is humanity. Nor is anyone as funny telling it * Observer *One of the funniest books I’ve read in a long time * Psychologies *Read it: it is hilarious, often wonderfully perceptive, uncompromisingly ambitious and written by a great master of the English language * Financial Times *Moving and humane… I love this novel… It is beautifully achieved, cunningly relaxed, and reveals considerable emotional depth * Daily Telegraph *The best novelist of his generation * Independent *Amis writes thrillingly well… [The Pregnant Widow] delivers fantastic enjoyment… It is funny, clever and knowing * Daily Mail *Amis is a powerful writer * Independent on Sunday *There is something witty or striking on almost every page * Mail on Sunday *Martin Amis’s new novel shows a regathering of his artistic energies * Guardian *The buzzing sense of fresh, limitless erotic licence is captured brilliantly…he is beginning to write with Old Master assurance on the important subjects… If Amis keeps writing like this about death, he can still prove everyone wrong * The Times *

Martin Amis was the author of fourteen novels, two collections of stories and eight works of non-fiction. His novel Time’s Arrow was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, for which his subsequent novel Yellow Dog was also longlisted, and his memoir Experience won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2008, The Times named him one of the 50 greatest writers since 1945. Amis died in May 2023.

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