‘Before we face experience, that miserable enemy, let us have some more innocence, just for a while....'

INTRODUCED BY ZADIE SMITH

In this masterwork of literary memoir, Martin Amis tells the stories of his life, both the ordinary and the outlandish — from his bohemian childhood, through fame, fatherhood and divorce, to the news of a cousin brutally murdered, the agonising removal of all his teeth, the discovery of a long-lost daughter and, most poignantly, the death of his father, and fellow novelist Kingsley Amis.

**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**

'Martin Amis is a seriously good writer, and never on better form than now. Experience, the book of his life, may be the book of his life' Daily Telegraph

"A scrupulous and candid writer" - Guardian

"His memoir is dazzling, provocative and mordant" - The Week

"Funny, sad, moving and absolutely riveting" - Daily Telegraph

"On virtually every page there is a phrase that is blissfully funny and ingenious...never less than compelling" - Mail on Sunday

"Three times in the reading of this book, the courage, compassion and simplicity of Amis's writing brought me to tears. As a portrait of sustaining love between a father and a son, Experience stands alone among the testaments" - The Time