The Alteration

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Hubert Anvil is a 10 year old boy blessed with the voice of an angel. The Church hierarchy decrees that Hubert should be turned into a castrato - an alteration that could bring Hubert fame and fortune, but would also cut him off from an adult world he is curious to discover. In a dystopian world where Martin Luther never reformed and where the Holy Office's power is absolute, where will Hubert turn if he decides to defy their wishes

©Kingsley Amis 1976 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Critics Review

  • Kingsley Amis’s coruscating tour de force…

    The Economist
  • Certain of his place up alongside P.G. Wodehouse, Evelyn Waugh and Anthony Powell among the English comic masters of the twentieth century.

    Guardian
  • The disorientating world of The Alteration is the same but different, familiar yet strange

    Tablet

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