Charles Highway is every mother-s worst nightmare.
Precociously intelligent, mercilessly manipulative and highly sexed, Charles devotes the last of his teenage years to bedding girls and evading the half-arsed overtures of his distant parents. That is, until, he meets the aloof, wildly unattainable, Rachel.
As Charles-s twentieth birthday - and the Oxford entrance exams - loom, his plans for seducing Rachel will draw him into a private collection of obsessional notes and observations: the eponymous -Rachel Papers-.
WINNER OF THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD
''Scurrilous, shameless and very funny'' The Times Literary Supplement
-Amis has brought off the feat of satirizing his contemporaries while making them both funny and, in a bizarre way, moving- Peter Ackroyd
