New Amis Novel Delayed Until 2010

Jonathan Cape has confirmed that publication of the new Martin Amis novel THE PREGNANT WIDOW has been delayed until February 2010.

The book had previously been scheduled to appear this September. Cape publicist Laura Hassan said the postponement came after delays finishing the book.

THE PREGNANT WIDOW is described as a "tragicomedy of manners" taking place during a long, hot summer holiday in Italy in 1970. A Sunday Times article last weekend (10 May) claimed it would explore a "sexual trauma" affecting a man approaching his sixties.

His last novel was HOUSE OF MEETINGS published in 2006.

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