Jake's Thing

As Jake nears his 60th birthday, his hitherto faithful - to him, at least - companion goes missing. Kingsley Amis leads the hunt for Jake’s libido.

"In these explicit days, Mr Amis is the laureate of the unsayable."  -  Sunday Telegraph

When trout with almonds and Thunderball on the television seems a more enticing prospect than a romp with your bosomy ex-mistress from Baltimore then something is seriously wrong - or so thinks Jake Richardson, an Oxford don nearing 60 with a lifetime’s lechery behind him.

"A savage, often unfunny and unfocused adieu to sex—at least as it's practised in the "permissive society... The Amis prose glitters throughout as shark-toothily as ever."  -  Kirkus Reviews

Kingsley Amis is renowned as one of the finest English comic novelists of the second half of the 20th century. A novelist, poet and satirist, he wrote more than twenty novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, and various short stories, as well as literary criticism. In 2008, the Times ranked Kingsley Amis 13th on their list of the 50 greatest British authors since 1945. He is the father of the acclaimed British novelist Martin Amis.