-Full of dark, deadpan humour, Brat is a raucous story of the messy, messed-up business of living, dying and having a family.- Financial Times -A moving coming-of-age family story- Observer 'Iconic', Radio 1I was in the waiting room. Then I was in the examination room. Gabriel-s skin is falling off. His dad is dead. He owes his editor a novel. His girlfriend won-t answer his calls. Tasked by his horribly well-adjusted brother with clearing out the family home for sale, Gabriel-s sanity quickly begins to unravel. His parents- old manuscripts appear to change each time he reads them. A bizarre home video hints at long-buried secrets. And there-s a hideous man in the garden. Disquieting and hilarious, taut yet lyrical, blisteringly-paced but formally inventive, Brat is a mediation on grief, art and love that will leave you altered, breathless and desperate for more. From a stunningly original new talent, this is a debut novel unlike anything you have read before. -This original, clever st