Robin Davies is both a shrewd observer and an energetic actor in a drama that takes him from school to Oxford. With him we live through all the pangs of a pre-war adolescence in South London, and on through his rites of passage to adulthood, involving rebellion, self-discovery, sex, seduction and commitment. YOU CAN'T DO BOTH is classic Amis - brilliantly funny, outrageous, and alive to every social nuance; it is also tender, compellingly insightful and strongly autobiographical.
'Has you moved to tears. Amis amazes at every turn-A masterpiece from a master' Mail on Sunday
'Acutely and poignantly observed-there is still fire in the old devil's belly' Daily Telegraph
'As finely judged, as exactly observed, as vividly conceived as anything he has written' The Times
'Funny, touching, well-constructed, sharply evocative of time and place and written with characteristic Amisian aplomb. It is a first class addition to his oeuvre' Spectator
