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How Not to Survive
WHAT IF your mum's an alcoholic and your dad's engaged to an evil living doll?
WHAT IF you're failing college and about to be fired from your dead-end-loser job?
WHAT IF you're being stalked by an accountant and you've fallen for a sexy drug dealer?
The long awaited sequel to Will Davis' award-winning debut novel My Side of the Story, How Not to Survive follows the trials and pitfalls of Jaz Jones, a twenty one year old Londoner struggling to hold it together...
Praise for My Side of the Story (winner of the 2007 Betty Trask Prize):
'Will Davis is a witty writer who effortlessly conjures up the frenetic detail of Jaz's sixteen-year-old world' - Independant on Sunday
'The dialogue fizzes with savvy one-liners... Davis' observations of the dysfunctions of family and school are as sharp as his prose is fresh, and his debut is intriguing, touching and entertaining' - Time Out
'Davis's narrative style makes this a stand-out read – it's a cross between Catherine Tate's Lauren and Vicky Pollard... There'll be comparisons with Jonathon Coe's The Rotters' Club and Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole, but this is a journal for the Noughties' - Gay Times
'Combines the coolness of Queer as Folk with the tenderness of Adrian Mole' - Elle
Will Davis is author of My Side of the Story, Dream Machine and The Trapeze Artist (all published by Bloomsbury). More information about him can be found on his website will-davis.co.uk
WHAT IF you're failing college and about to be fired from your dead-end-loser job?
WHAT IF you're being stalked by an accountant and you've fallen for a sexy drug dealer?
The long awaited sequel to Will Davis' award-winning debut novel My Side of the Story, How Not to Survive follows the trials and pitfalls of Jaz Jones, a twenty one year old Londoner struggling to hold it together...
Praise for My Side of the Story (winner of the 2007 Betty Trask Prize):
'Will Davis is a witty writer who effortlessly conjures up the frenetic detail of Jaz's sixteen-year-old world' - Independant on Sunday
'The dialogue fizzes with savvy one-liners... Davis' observations of the dysfunctions of family and school are as sharp as his prose is fresh, and his debut is intriguing, touching and entertaining' - Time Out
'Davis's narrative style makes this a stand-out read – it's a cross between Catherine Tate's Lauren and Vicky Pollard... There'll be comparisons with Jonathon Coe's The Rotters' Club and Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole, but this is a journal for the Noughties' - Gay Times
'Combines the coolness of Queer as Folk with the tenderness of Adrian Mole' - Elle
Will Davis is author of My Side of the Story, Dream Machine and The Trapeze Artist (all published by Bloomsbury). More information about him can be found on his website will-davis.co.uk
309 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 2, 2012
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February 12, 2013
Bit hard going and confronting at times.
Needed a good editor .
Needed a good editor .
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