Seagulls

by Edwin Stevens

A novel? of fourteen wonky stories revolving around a fake North Wales Holiday Park.

270 pages, Paperback

Published October 15, 2020

About the author

Edwin Stevens is a Musician and Writer from Llanfairfechan, Wales. He lives in Glasgow, Scotland.

Reviews

[Marylyn Ward · Rating 4 out of 5]

I felt those people, everyday folk with fairly normal lives. Edwin what have you been up to!? Fuck knows what happened at the end though?! The story that got to me the most was the father talking to his children, god that floored me 😕 and the rest of it just triggered my ptsd from my one and only (I hope) Pontins adventure. Camber Sands. Never again. A sess pool of humanity, quite literally. Everyone out the pool quick!! someone's shat!! there was more but I'll save it, I might write a book lol

[James Starkey · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was a Goodread. A very very Goodread indeed.

[Blair James · Rating 5 out of 5]

Esgob Annwyl! SEAGULLS is Stevens’ debut novel, a sordid glimpse of an imagined North Walean life, depressing and disgusting but somehow magical, and a version of Pontins quite unfamiliar to that place you may have visited as a child. While I was reading I picked a scab on my ear until it bled and got blood on page 74. It seemed quite fitting. Bumming, wrestling, circumcision, pubey chips, Crosby, Stills, and Nash – it really has it all. Stevens’ capacity for evocative description and dreamlike scene-setting is impeccable. By the end, I was part-aroused, part-nauseated, part-wistful, part-drunk with excitement for his next work. Stevens is my favourite scumbag angel, his first book a perfect flash of his gross, rotting, and beautiful head, and I hope that his hilarious and vivid voice will soon be in your head, too.

[Maebh Harper · Rating 5 out of 5]

I devoured this in a day & immediately set about reading it again. One of the most enjoyable, funny, filthy reads, 10/10, can’t recommend enough

[Evelyn Stevens · Rating 5 out of 5]

Disturbing , dark, weird, funny, captivating and enthralling. The words glide off the page into your soul. At the end of the book I had no idea what had happened but I felt I knew each character like they were my bestfriend, sister, mother, partner.... a very good read indeed.