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Apples [Kindle Edition]

Richard Milward (Author)
3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews) |
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'An astonishing debut... It is Catcher in the Rye meets the Arctic Monkeys.' --Times Magazine

superb stage version of Richard Milward's debut novel... It's a funny-sad, ugly-beautiful night out, nicely performed by its young cast and swirling with the sweaty, dirty poetry of everyday life. 4 stars --Lyn Gardner, The Guardian

[a] neat, pacey production ... A rollercoaster ride through adolescence in all its frantic, anxious, smeary, glittering glory. --Alice Jones, The Independent

the Guardian - Going Up

Richard Milward - barely in his double digits and this boy can WRITE! Apples is our little joy of the month
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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 262 KB
  • Print Length: 216 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1847671780
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber Fiction (19 Feb 2009)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B002RI9ZRM
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #101,922 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Simply brilliant! 21 Feb 2008
By SJSmith TOP 1000 REVIEWER
Format:Paperback
I loved this book from start to finish. It's shocking, dramatic and lots of other things as well but one thing is certain it is realistic. I've worked in the area the book is set and knew the school mentioned quite well, and it is accurate narrative from my experiences. In fact, if you were to go to any area of high deprivation and poverty in the UK and you'd be greeted with similar scenarios.

Okay, enough about the setting. Move on to the characters. Adam and Eve are truly brilliant and how good to link it to the bibical references from the Garden of Eden. However in this case Eden is not all its cracked up to be. At no point did I feel that Richard Milward was trying to be smug with the characters - I really felt he was trying to portray what he would have known about children like that from his own area. It's a sad representation of life for some school children.

The cover work is fabulous, well done those designers. Equally as big a well done to Richard Milward for writing this book at 19 years old. I can't praise this book enough for it's style, honesty, brutality and scope.
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Temptation 1 May 2007
By kehs TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:Paperback
What a brilliant idea - call a book Apples and name the two main characters Adam and Eve. What this promises is sure to be a theme on temptations and that's exactly what we get. Apples is essentially a hard hitting take on Adam and Eve from the book of Genesis - the story of children growing up and going out into the big wide world with all of its wicked ways to lure them into temptation. And do the kids in this book stray or what! Adam has OCD and spends his spare time reading porn magazines and pleasuring himself in his attic. Eve is a drug taking, alcopop-guzzling teenager, who thinks nothing of having one night stands. This is probably all in an attempt to block out the fact that she's just discovered that her mother has cancer. The book is peopled with characters that are delinquents of varying types, amongst them being drug dealers, addicts and rapists, who are all growing up together on a sink estate trying to get through each day the best way that they know how.

Narrated in turns by Adam and Eve this book pulls no punches. The gritty realism shines through this shocking tale, which is filled with graphic imagery and the vilest of language. Reading this will make you gasp with horror at their grim lifestyles, but the author writes in such a captivating manner that he pulls you right into the story and the reader will get swept away with his writing style. This is an amazing first novel by Richard Milward, a talented young author
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
On the fence. 18 Aug 2007
Format:Paperback
'Apples' is one of those novels that you read in a matter of hours because its style, characters and plot captures your attention & you just have to know what happens to them. My favourite aspect of the novel is how Milwards portrays a group of young girls experience of alcohol, drugs, sex, rape and of being overwhelmed by unexpected motherhood. He writes skilfully and sensitively. This is the main reason I would recommend 'Apples' to a friend.

Nevertheless I have a couple of issues with the novel. I sometimes felt that it was trying too hard to be controversial, and it also seemed to end rather abruptly so you're left wondering whether there was much point in joining these characters lives at all. Definately worth a read though and I look forward to what Milward writes next!
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Wonderful but bleak
Apples is both a excruciating insight into the mind of inadequate teenage boys, put upon girls and the beauty and bleakness of post-industrial Teesside. Read more
Published 6 months ago by bookgroupchris
the youth of today
You ever see those teenage girls hanging around on street corners drinking cider from the bottle? Ever wonder what goes on inside their heads? Read more
Published 7 months ago by vi
What exactly happened?
What makes a good book? Is it a page-turner, a book you simply cannot put down? Or is it a book that leaves an impression and leaves you wanting more - caring for those... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Oh! Panda
What a debut
I really enjoyed this book, the descriptions are so vivid and real. It may not be a perfect novel but it is very good and I'm guessing Milward's best work is yet to come.
Published on 26 Dec 2009 by Ms. K. L. Finn
read but not forgotten
Had to read it seen cover first then read review and wahey! a story about 'boro, nothing to boast about being a 'smoggy' as you'll find when you read it though..... Read more
Published on 9 Sep 2008 by Nicola
There's no place like home
I read it because it was set in Middlesbrough, amidst the vast range of council estates where my gran, Auntie Hilda and Auntie May lived when I was a kid. Read more
Published on 23 Aug 2008 by Mrs. R.
And then this, and then that...
It is easy to see why this book got published. Presumably, some luvvie in a London publishing house thought it sounded "gritty" and "authentic". And so, in some ways, it is. Read more
Published on 16 April 2008 by bloodsimple
I couldn't put this down!
I have just borrowed this book from my 60 year old mother and we both thought it fantastic. I am well over thirty and a generation away from the author but still identified with... Read more
Published on 19 Mar 2008 by A Cerbic
Great story, poor ending
Loved reading this book and identifying characters that I knew. Written with a level of detail to keep you captivated, this is a no-nonsense, non-judgemental look into a few... Read more
Published on 22 Feb 2008 by Elaine Ray
teenagers?
all i can say is middlesburgh must be a really rough area because i am a teenager and im not a bedhopping junkie with severe problems! Read more
Published on 18 Jan 2008 by Lady Flyte
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