The Pregnant Widow

Amis writes thrillingly well... It is funny, clever and knowing

Daily Mail

What a voice! There's a full-throated energy to this book that makes more respectable contemporary novels look like turgid waffle

Guardian

Delight us Amis does, and as few can

Independent

The best novelist of his generation

Independent

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

Independent

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

A breezy sex comedy

The Times

Amis is back...and turns in his usual bravura performance

Herald

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

Guardian

Amazing...very well written

Word

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

Guardian, Christmas roundup

Hugely entertaining

Daily Telegraph Review, Christmas roundup

Humane, rueful and wonderfully resourceful in its wit

Spectator, Christmas roundup

I don't think you can ever be disappointed with an Amis novel

David Miliband, Daily Telegraph Summer Reads

I always relish the witty inventiveness of Amis's style

David Lodge, Guardian Summer Reading

The Pregnant Widow is replete with ambitious aphorisms, drunkenly swaying between brilliance and extraordinary silliness

Third Way

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

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

The Tablet

One of the funniest books I've read in a long time

Psychologies

He's a forceful comic stylist

London Review of Books

Wordy, but you're carried along in a slightly titillating way

The Observer

A compelling read

Week

Is this the return to the form we have all been waiting for? In short - yes, it is

Prospect

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

The Times

Martin Amis's new novel shows a regathering of his artistic energies

Guardian

There is something witty or striking on almost every page

Mail on Sunday

Amis is a powerful writer

Independent on Sunday

Read it: it is hilarious, often wonderfully perceptive, uncompromisingly ambitious and written by a great master of the English language

Financial Times

Amis writes thrillingly well... [The Pregnant Widow] delivers fantastic enjoyment... It is funny, clever and knowing

Daily Mail

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

Moving and humane... I love this novel... It is beautifully achieved, cunningly relaxed, and reveals considerable emotional depth

Daily Telegraph

Amis employs his trademark derisive wit

Marie Claire

No one better understands the cosmic joke that is humanity. Nor is anyone as funny telling it

Observer