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