''The Folks That Live on the Hill'' is Kingsley Amis's 20th novel, first published in 1990. The novel's protagonist is Harry Caldecote, a retired librarian living in a fictional 'Shepherd's Hill' area of North London, suggested in fact to be Primrose Hill. Harry is twice divorced and lives with his sister Clare. The novel describes the interaction of Harry's extended family of son Piers, brother Freddie, sister-in-law Desiree and Fiona and Bunty who are relatives of his former wives. The narration takes place in turn, from the viewpoint of the principal characters of the novel. In this work, Amis lampoons the attitudes and lifestyles of the North London

chattering classes The chattering classes is a politically active, socially concerned and highly educated section of the "metropolitan middle class",

Reception

This work was compared favourably with Amis'

Booker Prize The Booker Prize, formerly known as the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a Literary award, literary prize awarded each year for the best novel written in English and published in the United King ...

-winning novel ''

The Old Devils ''The Old Devils'' is a novel by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1986. The novel won the Booker Prize. The plot centres on Alun Weaver, a writer of modest celebrity, who returns to his native Wales with his wife, Rhiannon, sometime girlfriend ...

''. This late 20th century 'comedy of manners' was described as 'cheerful and gregarious as a crowded saloon bar'. It was also described as 'a pleasant, rambling, sometimes touching tale'.

References

1990 British novels Novels by Kingsley Amis Hutchinson (publisher) books {{1990s-comedy-novel-stub