''Girl, 20'' is a novel by

Kingsley Amis Sir Kingsley William Amis (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, short stories, radio and television scripts, and works of social an ...

, first published in 1971.

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designed the first edition cover. The novel's anti-hero is Sir Roy Vandervane, a late middle-aged orchestral conductor and composer. He is a committed philanderer who also has pretensions to be at the vanguard of 1960s counter-culture. The novel is narrated by his friend and colleague Douglas Yandell, whose love life is hardly less complex. Sylvia is Sir Roy's (much) younger girlfriend with wisdom and guile far beyond her years. The plot describes the interactions of the aforementioned and of wife Kitty and daughter Penny. The work received positive reviews in the

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External links

Kingsley Amis - All Free Now
- BBC Radio drama. A 90-minute radio drama from 1989. Written by Tony Bilbow - based on Kingsley Amis's novel Girl 20.

References

1971 British novels Novels by Kingsley Amis Jonathan Cape books NYRB Classics {{1970s-comedy-novel-stub