**The heart-to-heart testimony of one of our finest writers**

Inside Story combines autobiography, fiction, and essays to make the novel of a lifetime from one of our greatest writers. What begins as a thrilling tale of romantic entanglements, family and friendship, evolves into a tender, witty exploration of the hardest questions on life, death, love and friendship.

We meet the people that have shaped Amis’s own experience – Saul Bellow, Kingsley Amis, the alluringly amoral Phoebe Phelps, and Christopher Hitchens, Amis's closest friend, whose death gave birth to this novel.

In his search for answers, Amis surveys the great horrors of the twentieth century, and the still unfolding impact of the 9/11 attacks on the twenty-first – and shares all he has learned on how to write.