The Rachel Papers

Charles Highway, a precociously intelligent and highly sexed teenager, is determined to sleep with an older woman before he turns twenty. Rachel fits the bill perfectly and Charles plans his seduction meticulously, sets the scene with infinite care - but it doesn't come off quite as Charles expects...

Martin Amis is the author of fourteen novels, two collections of stories and eight works of non-fiction. His novel
Time’s Arrow was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, for which his subsequent novel
Yellow Dog was also longlisted, and his memoir
Experience won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2008,
The Times named him one of the 50 greatest writers since 1945. He lives in New York.