Bitingly funny, full of wit and pathos, The Pregnant Widow is a trenchant portrait of young lives being carried away on a sea of change.
The Pregnant Widow is a comedy of manners and a nightmare, brilliant, haunting and gloriously risqué. It is Martin Amis at his fearless best.
‘A phenomenal writer’ Sunday Times An intoxicating comedy about youth, the 1970s, the sexual revolution and its aftermath.
Expertly written and full of wit and pathos, The Pregnant Widow is Amis at his fearless best.
Summer 1970. A long, hot summer. In a castle in Italy, half a dozen young lives are afloat on the sea of change, trapped inside thehistory of the sexual revolution.