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Dec 17, 2025 4:39 AM

Author:Martin Amis

Money

John Self is a consumer extraordinaire.

Rolling between London and New York he closes movie deals and spends feverishly, all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites: alcohol, tobacco, pills, pornography and mountains of junk food.

But John’s excesses haven’t gone unnoted. Menaced by a phone stalker, his high-wire, hoggish lifestyle is about to bring him face-to-face with the secret of his success.

'Terribly, terminally funny: laughter in the dark, if ever I heard it' Guardian

Reviews

Amis is still the finest English fiction writer of his generation

—— Sunday Independent

An electrifying writer who likes to shock his fans and share his sharply contemporary concerns... Amis is a maddening master you need to read - the best of his generation

—— Mail on Sunday

Amis is immaculate as a comic stylist...irresistible

—— Daily Telegraph

His eloquently rendered inner life shows a richness and tenderness

—— The Week

A comic opera of excess and humiliation, driven by the punch and panache of Amis's extraordinary prose, Money remains as satirically spot-on as when it was first published

—— The List

Amis's gleeful chronicling of modern squalor was never funnier

—— John Walsh , Reader's Digest

The kind of book you fall in love with - a grown-up novel that is hilarious, heartbreaking and brimming with the bitter-sweet tang of all our lives

—— Tony Parsons

Pearson...never hides her intelligence or apologises for her seriousness of purpose

—— The Times

A funny, heartbreaking mirror of the daily lives of mothers

—— Telegraph Magazine

Brutally witty

—— Metro

Searing comedy

—— New Statesman

If you could buy stock in a book, I would stake all my savings on the success of I Don't Know How She Does It. Here at last is the definitive social comedy of working motherhood

—— Washington Post

Pearson writes with instinctive comedy

—— Observer Review

A book that made me howl with laughter

—— The Times

Here at last is the definitive social comedy of working motherhood

—— Washington Post

Funny, fast and full of nail-on-the-head observations

—— Daily Telegraph

The writing is sharp, funny and cleverly observant of the small details - funny, intelligent and insightful

—— Waterstone's Books Quarterly

Extremely funny

—— The Irish Times

Sparkling black comedy

—— Play

Pearson is a hilarious author who captures the guilt and the exhaustion of the working mother's life perfectly

—— Dublin Daily

It's the incisive details and Pearson's vivid writing that propel the story

—— New York Times Books

Smart book...great fun

—— New York Times

Pearson is insightful, witty and full of fun

—— Daily Telegraph

Wonderfully warm, witty and intelligent

—— Sunday independent

A Bible for the working woman

—— Oprah Winfrey

Her social observation is unerringly accurate...so beautifully written that it brought tears to my eyes, as well as a wry smile

—— Daily Telegraph

Pearson...to write a novel...that has already sold a gazillion copies and is going to become a film. Hats off to you, madam!

—— Ok Magazine

She will...make you laugh

—— Culture, Sunday Times

Pearson...has made it all fresh again

—— Time

Entertaining, compulsively readable, and brilliantly written

—— Daily Candy

Hilarious and...poignant

—— Publisher's Weekly

This terrific novel is alternately hilarious and sad

—— Upfront

It may change your life

—— The Observer

Pearson is a very witty and moving writer. Her prose is spare and skilful...waspish truisms and spot-on social observations

—— Daily Express

Intelligent, witty and of-the-moment, it mixes sassy, brittle perceptions with barefaced sentimentality

—— The Herald, Glasgow

Brilliantly captures and defines the mood of the moment...sparkling wit and razor sharp insights

—— XW Magazine

Sharply observed and frequently funny

—— Evening Standard
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