# Dead Babies

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- Book: [Dead Babies](https://www.bookquiver.com/martin-amis/dead-babies) ([Dead Babies.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/martin-amis/dead-babies.md))
- Authors: [Martin Amis](https://www.bookquiver.com/martin-amis)
- Publisher: picador
- ISBN: 978-12-5035-872-1
- Published: 2025-05-20
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Dead Babies, a hilarious Agatha Christie parody and Martin Amis's second novel, was deemed his " most incendiary" (the BBC). Within the quiet walls of the Appleseed Rectory, a gorgeous five-bedroom, three-story home in rural England, anything goes: the drugs are consumed with gusto, the booze flows like water, and the sex is near constant and deliciously debauched. When six uppity twenty-somethings gather at the rectory for a careless weekend away, things quickly go awry. And when someone named Johnny begins leaving threatening letters around the house, the group is thoroughly shaken-no one has any clue who this " Johnny" could be. A dizzying whirlwind of a novel, Dead Babies is a lurid, sharp, and darkly hilarious indictment of the horrifying vices and shameless self-indulgences of privileged youth.