Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

Offer ends May 1st, 2024 11:59PM GMT. Terms and conditions apply.
£7.99/month after 3 months. Renews automatically.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Girl, 20 cover art

Girl, 20

By: Kingsley Amis
Narrated by: Oliver Chris
Get this deal Try for £0.00

Pay £99p/month. After 3 months pay £7.99/month. Renews automatically. See terms for eligibility.

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Listeners also enjoyed...

Herzog cover art
Address Book cover art
The Progress of a Crime cover art
The Secret of Chimneys cover art
Humboldt's Gift cover art
Troubles cover art
The Killings at Badger’s Drift cover art
Game Over cover art
Slippery Creatures cover art
Duffy and Son cover art
I Fear for This Boy cover art
The Other Place and Other Stories of the Same Sort cover art
From the City, from the Plough cover art

Summary

Brought to you by Penguin.

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.

©1971 Kingsley Amis (P)2020 Penguin Audio

What listeners say about Girl, 20

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    7
  • 4 Stars
    3
  • 3 Stars
    2
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Performance
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    7
  • 4 Stars
    3
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    1
  • 1 Stars
    0
Story
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    6
  • 4 Stars
    2
  • 3 Stars
    3
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    3 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    2 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars
  • PM
  • 12-01-21

Strange pronunciation errors...

One defect here is that the narrator manages to mispronounce most of the names of the various famous composers that are mentioned throughout the text. Given that this is a book about a conductor narrated by a music critic, it’s a fairly considerable irritant and baffling that no one involved seems to have heard of the likes of Weber or Haydn. Apart from that, it’s an enjoyable enough listen through one of Kingsley Amis’s most savagely satirical novels.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

1 person found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    3 out of 5 stars

divine comic prose

Kingsley once again proves himself a master of the comic. the wrestling scene is divinely funny. You'd have thought the narrator would have looked up how to pronounce certain composer's names, however.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Great voice acting, story holds up

I was really surprised at how modern the characters feel considering the book is from 1971 it’s baffling how far society hasn’t actually come. Same issues 50 years later, the voice actor I felt was really impressive at making the characters distinctive and getting a real feel for each person

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!