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  • Published: 14 June 2013
  • ISBN: 9780141194271
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $29.99

Take a Girl Like You




A humourous exploration of the human preocupation with sex in a style that is truely Kingsley's own.

Twenty year old Jenny Bunn is supernally beautiful and stubbornly chaste, which is why Patrick Standish, an arrogant schoolmaster, wants her so much. This perceptive coming of age novel about a northern girl who moves south, wants to fit in and yet wants to preserve her principles, challenges our assumptions about the battle of the sexes and classes in Britain. It is a story about 'the squalid business of the man and the woman' and 'the most wonderful thing that had ever happened' to Jenny Bunn.

Few twentieth century novelists have explored our preoccupation with sex like Kingsley Amis. The results are surprising and often hilarious.

  • Published: 14 June 2013
  • ISBN: 9780141194271
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $29.99

About the author

Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis has been described as 'the finest English comic novelist of the second half of the twentieth century'. Born in 1922, he wrote over twenty novels, including Lucky Jim (1954), winner of the Somerset Maugham Award for fiction, The Old Devils (1986), which won the Booker Prize, and The Biographer's Moustache (1995). He also published several collections of short stories, poetry and non-fiction. Amis was awarded a CBE in 1981 and received a knighthood in 1990. He died in 1995.

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