"I’d rather go to bed," she said.
"If you’re tired some food’ll perk you up," said Ronnie.
"I don’t mean that. I’m not tired. I mean sex."
"Okay," Ronnie said reliably, "We’ll go to my flat."
"I can’t wait," the girl droned. "I want it now …"

          Thus TV interviewer Ronnie Applayard’s first meeting with Simona Quick, a poor little super-rich girl with a sexual hang-up money can’t buy off. Ronnie reckons on solving Simona’s problems (he has a wealth of experience to draw on) and lining his own trendily-cut pockets at the same time. But the world of the ultra-rich holds deadly social traps for the pushy outsider …

          Kingsley Amis, in this superbly comic novel, fires some deadly accurate shots at the foibles of the international rich set and at the cliches of the so-called permissive society.