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You Can't Do Both

By: Kingsley Amis
Narrated by: Adam Newington
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Robin Davies knows how to look after number one. Raised in a bland suburb of South London in the 1930s, Robin longs for the freedom to do what he wants. When he escapes to study in Oxford, he meets Nancy Bennett, a young woman even less worldly than himself. As Robin stumbles through his rites of passage to adulthood, involving rebellion, self-discovery, sex, war, seduction and the threat of commitment, we come to realise just how far he will go to have his cake and eat it.

©Kingsley Amis 1994 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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Critic reviews

Acutely and poignantly observed-there is still fire in the old devil's belly
As finely judged, as exactly observed, as vividly conceived as anything he has written
Funny, touching, well-constructed, sharply evocative of time and place and written with characteristic Amisian aplomb. It is a first class addition to his oeuvre
Will have you whooping with delight (John Osborne)
All stars
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slowish initial start but then loved it. Great insight to complexity of relationships. Brlliantly, convincingly and sympathetically narrated for all the different characters and their effect on the young.person.

complexity of relationships brilliantly portrayed

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