Kingsley Amis & Philip Larkin altered the landscape of post-war British fi ction & poetry & were among the most popular serious literary writers of the second half of the twentieth century. Respectively their fiction & poetry
- particularly works such as Lucky Jim & The Whitsun Weddings
- have captured the imagination of the reading public & speak to us of something innately English & timeless. Published works only touch the surface of the bizarre & magnetic relationship between these two controversial & eccentric writers. The true complex story is told here for the fi rst time. Thoroughly researched & brilliantly composed by Richard Bradford
- author of critically acclaimed separate biographies of both writers & of Martin Amis
- The Odd Couple shows us these two literary giants as we have never seen them before. It also shows us how much of their most important work is an index to their relationship. Had they not met they would not have become the writers they were.