Dead Babies, Martin Amis
Dead Babies, Martin Amis
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Dead Babies
A Novel

Author: Martin Amis

Narrator: Wink Taylor

Unabridged: 8 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/02/2025


Synopsis

Dead Babies, a hilarious Agatha Christie parody and Martin Amis’s second novel, was deemed his “most incendiary” (the BBC).

Within the quiet walls of the Appleseed Rectory, a gorgeous five-bedroom, three-story home in rural England, anything goes: the drugs are consumed with gusto, the booze flows like water, and the sex is near constant and deliciously debauched.

When six uppity twenty-somethings gather at the rectory for a careless weekend away, things quickly go awry. And when someone named Johnny begins leaving threatening letters around the house, the group is thoroughly shaken—no one has any clue who this “Johnny” could be.

A dizzying whirlwind of a novel, Dead Babies is a lurid, sharp, and darkly hilarious indictment of the horrifying vices and shameless self-indulgences of privileged youth.

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

About Martin Amis

Martin Amis (1949-2023) was a British novelist and critic. His work includes fifteen novels, among them Money, London Fields and The Information; two collections of short stories; five books of essays; and the acclaimed memoir Experience.


Reviews

Goodreads review by William2 on May 05, 2020

Bit of nostalgia. Depraved innit. The sexual violence against women here will set your hair on fire. The novel‘s cruelty is puerile. Though when I was 26, about Amis’s age when this novel was published, I probably would’ve found it hilarious. (Male brains aren’t fully developed until age 25 or so.)......more

Goodreads review by MJ on May 14, 2018

A scurrilous, snot-nosed, bile-black, scabrous, swaggering novel showing Amis at the peak of his misanthropic powers, in control of a crazed comic tenor that would resurface in less vicious form in the onanistic opus The Information. This is Amis’s Hex Enduction Hour.......more

Goodreads review by Sid on July 02, 2008

Great fun! A wonderful book to read aloud to the children!......more

Goodreads review by mark on May 14, 2016

Amis at his most cutting and shallow. he's never been too big a fan of homo sapiens. this depiction of a weekend house party is populated by less-than sympathetic assholes who never quite reach the status of real people; it also includes a mysterious figure who visits various torments on these ridic......more

Goodreads review by Baba on May 03, 2023

A group of young decadent hedonistic people gather at the Appleseed Rectory for a blitz of sex, drugs and more on the edge behaviour. Will it all end in tears Leave it to Martin Amis to tell the story; technically very well written, at times very funny, at times very very dark. 7 out of 12., Three S......more