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Grow Up (Unabridged) [Audio Download]

by Ben Brooks (Author), John Hasler (Narrator)
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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  • Audio Download
  • Listening Length: 5 hours and 58 minutes
  • Program Type: Audiobook
  • Version: Unabridged
  • Publisher: Canongate Books
  • Audible Release Date: 7 July 2011
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B005BEH9FE
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

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Who says youth is wasted on the young? Jasper wants to get on in the world, but life is distracting. He's got his A-levels to contend with, his mother pushing him to overachieve, weekly visits to his psychologist, come-downs, YouTube suicides and pregnant one-night-stands. And then there's his step-dad - the murderer.

Hilarious and heartbreaking by turns, GROW UP is the ultimate twenty-first-century coming-of-age novel. It paints a vivid portrait of the pills and thrills and bellyaches of growing up today. Funny, smart and twisted, it is the story of one young man transformed.

©2011 Ben Brooks; (P)2011 Canongate

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is the story of Jasper, a quirky, egotistical, frequently frustrated and even more frequently funny seventeen-year-old. He's by turns capricious, irritating, charming, scheming and even sweet. The author's 19, which shouldn't be relevant, I know, but somehow is, because this all feels horribly, but enticingly real, like you've actually opened up someone's diary and are in on every hope and fear going through their head. It's like a punked up version of Joe Dunthorne's SUBMARINE. And smacks of the kind of authenticity Skins would kill for. Looking forward to seeing what Brooks comes up with next. Something exciting and unexpected, I should think.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
A Great Read 8 May 2012
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
I love books where you understand the main character to the point that you believe they could exist and Grow Up does exactly that. I personally believe this story to be genius in exploring the human mind and how one person's view of the world can be extremely twisted - Grow Up is the perfect title for this story and is an ongoing theme in the book.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
So nearly great 1 Oct 2011
Format:Paperback
Had the feel of a Generation X for the next Gen but then failed to commit.

Wouldn't agree with the chosen quote on the cover about being laugh out loud, it's funny in places but altogether more funereal than fun.

Enjoyably written just lacking that extra ounce to make it go from good to great
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