Content note: the novel raises issues of sexual violence, domestic violence, child abuse, child sexual exploitation and disordered eating.
Looking at Amis' London novel, or his darts novel, or his millenial novel (in the end-of-the-world sense not the avocado-toast-and-can't-buy-a-house sense). And the 2018
film based on it. On the way I discuss the strange parochialism of the metropolitan writer, how many levels of unreliable narration are present, and whether Amis hates the working class or just happens to write about its worst examples.
I also mention:
- Roger Lewis The Life and Death of Peter Sellers,
