<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>