Girl 20Kingsley AmisLabel: Penguin ClassicsDescription: Douglas Yandell a young-ish music critic is enlisted by Kitty Vandervane to keep an eye on her roving husband - the eminent conductor and would-be radical Sir Roy - as he embarks on yet another affair. Roy meanwhile wants Douglas as an alibi for his growing involvement with Sylvia an unsuitably young woman who loves nothing more than to shock and provoke. Life soon becomes extremely complicated as Douglas finds himself caught up in a frantic farcical tangle of relationships rivalry and scandal.Girl 20 is a merciless send-up of 1970s London's permissive society from a master of uproarious comedy.
