Icebox

by Ben Brooks

90 pages, Paperback

About the author

Ben Brooks (born 1992 in Gloucestershire) is the author of the novels: Grow Up, Fences, An Island of Fifty, The Kasahara School of Nihilism, Upward Coast and Sadie, Lolito, Everyone Gets Eaten, and Hurra. Writing for children, he has published the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Stories For Boys Who Dare to Be Different, Stories For Boys Who Dare to be Different 2, Stories For Kids Who Dare to be Different, The Impossible Boy, and The Greatest Inventor. His first non-fiction book for adults, Things They Don't Want You To Know, was published by Quercus in September 2020.

He contributed the story Kimchi or a Partial List of Misappropriated Hood Ornaments to Frank Ocean's Boys Don't Cry, accompanying the release of 2016 album Blonde.

Reviews

[Marilyn Saul · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fabulous book! Meet the music genius who composes symphonies in his head, conducts famous orchestras, and whose human relationships are eclipsed by his ever composing mind. He is upright (literally) and so tense he resembles the baton he uses while conducting. Meet the Mrs., a woman of low self-esteem whose only goal in life is to memorialize her husband's genius, including ensuring that he gets the award he deserves for his life's work, after he has had a stroke that has removed him from the life of music to which he had contributed (though, frustratingly, new music is still being composed within this genius' brain). But wait! What is her true motive for wanting her husband to receive the reward: is it truly for him (who disdained awards) or for herself, who has subsumed her life to the genius??