The Pregnant Widow

p>b>‘A phenomenal writer’ i>Sunday Times/i>/b>br>br>b>An intoxicating comedy about youth, the 1970s, the sexual revolution and its aftermath./b>br>br>Summer, 1970. Sex is very much on everyone's mind. br>br>Keith Nearing - a bookish twenty-year-old, in that much disputed territory between five foot six and five foot seven - is on holiday and struggling to twist the seventies’s emerging feminism towards his own ends. Torn between three women, his scheming doesn't come off quite as he expects.br>br>b>'Read it: it is hilarious, often wonderfully perceptive, uncompromisingly ambitious and written by a great master of the English language' i>Financial Times/i>/b>/p> p>b>‘A phenomenal writer’ i>Sunday Times/i>/b>br>br>b>An intoxicating comedy about youth, the 1970s, the sexual revolution and its aftermath./b>br>br>Summer, 1970. Sex is very much on everyone's mind. br>br>Keith Nearing - a bookish twenty-year-old, in that much disputed territory between five foot six and five foot seven - is on holiday and struggling to twist the seventies’s emerging feminism towards his own ends. Torn between three women, his scheming doesn't come off quite as he expects.br>br>b>'Read it: it is hilarious, often wonderfully perceptive, uncompromisingly ambitious and written by a great master of the English language' i>Financial Times/i>/b>/p>