The Folks That Live on the Hill (1985)

by Kingsley Amis

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Harry Caldecote, former librarian, finds retirement anything but restful. He expected the freedoms of age and of the 1980s. Instead, he gets something like bondage: responsibility for everyone he knows -- his grown children, his brother, even worse his sister, who arrives to keep house. How can Harry mount his amorous adventures with time and privacy shorn away? Yet desire and duty, love and loyalty, are opposite sides of the same coin.… (more)

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Very enjoyable novel. Really sharply written, funny, gripping but easy to read. Kingsley Amis writes about drinking better than any other author I've encountered. (

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The Folks That Live on the Hill

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1985

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Harry Caldecotte

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England, UK

Primrose Hill, London, England, UK

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Harry Caldecote, former librarian, finds retirement anything but restful. He expected the freedoms of age and of the 1980s. Instead, he gets something like bondage: responsibility for everyone he knows -- his grown children, his brother, even worse his sister, who arrives to keep house. How can Harry mount his amorous adventures with time and privacy shorn away? Yet desire and duty, love and loyalty, are opposite sides of the same coin.

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