The Adulterants

There is a chortle-inducing moment on almost every page… Dunthorne is not only one of contemporary fiction’s funniest voices but also one of its most generous and perceptive * The Irish Times *
Dunthorne is a superbly economical writer… He is also properly funny. There are several snort-through-your-nose moments. But throughout, the novel’s comedy is always balanced by insight and poignancy * Observer *
The Adulterants is thrust-the-book-at-the-person-next-to-you hilarious * New Statesman *
Joe Dunthorne is one of our best young writers * Metro *
Bristles with a deliciously sour, dyspeptic humour and is excellent at skewering the lifestyle habits of a liberal-minded middle-class * Daily Mail *
Perfectly formed… a pin-sharp skewering of a certain type of modern urban thirtysomething male, trapped in a protracted adolescent state. It’s one not to be missed * Bookseller *
The Adulterants, from its punning title onwards, is brilliantly knowing about its knowingness. It knows the only way we’ll tolerate a narrator as annoying as Ray is to punish him for the very virtues that make him a good narrator - nosiness and eloquence * Guardian *
A sharp satire of contemporary London and the modern urban male * Tatler *
Blisteringly funny and brimming with caustic charm - a joyous diagnosis of our modern ills that made me laugh out loud even when it was breaking my heart * Paul Murray *
Dark, beautifully wry, and side-splittingly excruciating, The Adulterants is a triumph of voice and vision * Tea Obreht *

Joe Dunthorne was born and brought up in Swansea. He is the author of three novels and one collection of poetry, including Submarine, which has been translated into fifteen languages and made into an acclaimed film directed by Richard Ayoade, and Wild Abandon, which won the 2012 Encore Award. Children of Radium is his first work of non-fiction. He lives in London.

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