hugely entertaining
Frances Wilson, The Daily Telgraph, Review

There is a sort of reverse bathos operating in Amis in which he slips from the empty epic to the comic sublime. At such moments, and there are plenty… no one better understands the cosmic joke that is humanity. Nor is anyone as funny telling it
Andrew Anthony, Observer

Amis employs his trademark derisive wit
Marie Claire

Sumptuous… Moving and humane, The Pregnant Widow also captivates by the accumstomed wit and elegance of its style. Amis just writes so well and so freshly… Amis is consistently bold, visual and accurate… I love this novel and it warmed when I read it a second time. It is beautifully achieved, cunningly relaxed, and reveals considerable emotional depth… The Man Booker Prize would be no more than its due
Philip Hensher, Daily Telegraph

This is a fine and hilarious book… Mr Amis has always been a stimulating writer, and someone who gives a distinctive colouring to certain times in our lives. “The Pregnant Widow” is Amis at his absolute and unique best
The Economist

Amis writes thrillingly well… [The Pregnant Widow] delivers fantastic enjoyment… It is funny, clever and knowing
Sam Leith, Daily Mail

This is Amis’ finest novel for a long time. It is close to a masterpiece… read it: it is hilarious, often wonderfully perceptive, uncompromisingly ambitious and written by a great master of the English language
Justin Cartwright, Financial Times

Amis is a powerful writer
Doug Johnstone, Independent on Sunday

There is something witty or striking on almost every page
Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday

Martin Amis’s new novel shows a regathering of his artistic energies
Christopher Taylor, 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’
Aravind Adiga, The Times

Is this the return to the form we have all been waiting for? In short – yes, it is
Tom Chatfield, Prospect

A compelling read
The Week

Wordy, but you’re carried along in a slightly titillating way
Bella Freud, The Observer

One of the funniest books I’ve read in a long time
Mariella Frostrup, Psychologies

He’s a forceful comic stylist
Jenny Turner, London Review of Books

This novel dares to take risks… The Pregnant Widow, for all its faults, remains a marvel of unsparing satire of wasted lives, wasted opportunity
Ian Thomson, The Tablet

I love him. He provokes and is cruel but he does it in such a brilliant, hilarious way. I’ve read pretty much all his books… his writing is spare, so its impact is all the greater
Andrew Lincoln

The Pregnant Widow is replete with ambitious aphorisms, drunkenly swaying between brilliance and extraordinary silliness.
Andrew Tate, Third Way

I always relish the witty inventiveness of Amis’s style
David Lodge, Guardian Summer Reading

I don’t think you can ever be disappointed with an Amis novel
David Miliband, Daily Telegraph Summer Reads

Humane, rueful and wonderfully resourceful in its wit
Philip Hensher, Spectator, Christmas roundup

Hugely entertaining
Frances Wilson, Daily Telegraph Review, Christmas roundup

This book has that rare and wonderful quality of taking the reader into a charmed confidence he’s not quite sure he deserves, but that he (in my case) wouldn’t miss for the world
Richard Ford, Guardian, Christmas roundup

Amazing… very well written.
Marianne Faithfull, The Word

The force of the well-chosen word promises great things of the whole. But does the whole deliver what’s promised? Well in this instance, it does.
Nicholas Lezard, Guardian

Amis is back… and turns in his usual bravura performance
Herald

A breezy sex comedy
Anthony Cummins, The Times

The more I read, the more I found myself enjoying it. It’s funny in the way the early novels were, but to the mix has been added a kind of middle-aged melancholy...Also, don’t let anyone tell you that Martin Amis can’t do women characters – Gloria Beautyman is a brilliant creation. It’s a novel about the sexual revolution, youth and age, and also offers a radical reinterpretation of Jane Austen. It’s witty and poignant, and it has a killer last line.
Independent on Sunday

The author’s inimitable style and distinctive flair for description and metaphor still stand up proud…This is a simultaneously serious and entertaining novel about a seemingly sunny revolution that still casts long shadows.
Emma Hagestadt, Independent