BRAT by Gabriel Smith Hardback Book 9781398525313

amplsquoFull of dark deadpan humour Brat is a raucous story of the messy messedup business of living dying and having a familyamprsquo Financial Times amp160amplsquoA moving comingofage family storyamprsquo Observer amp160 amp160amp39Iconicamp39 Radio 1I was in the waiting room Then I was in the examination room amp160 Gabrielamprsquos skin is falling off amp160 His dad is dead amp160 He owes his editor a novel amp160 His girlfriend wonamprsquot answer his calls amp160 Tasked by his horribly welladjusted brother with clearing out the family home for sale Gabrielamprsquos sanity quickly begins to unravel His parentsamprsquo old manuscripts appear to change each time he reads them A bizarre home video hints at longburied secrets And thereamprsquos a hideous man in the garden Disquieting and hilarious taut yet lyrical blisteringlypaced but formally inventiveamp160Bratamp160is a mediation on grief art and love that will leave you altered breathless and desperate for moreamp160 amp160From a stunningly original new talent this is a debut novel unlike anything you have read beforeamp160 amplsquoThis original clever story is brilliant on grief madness and creativity Itamprsquos...