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`I loved this book for its touching, truthful - sometimes shocking - and painfully funny portrayal of two brothers struggling to stay together after the death of their mother. It's a paean of praise for the other side of contemporary youth, the side that, with all its foibles and failures, is still driven by love and connection'
--Mavis Cheek
`Life! Death! Prizes! is a raw, funny and heartfelt book, full of surprising tenderness and hope - a fine achievement'
--A. L. Kennedy
'I LOVED Life! Death! Prizes! Really, really loved it. I was gripped, utterly held and then I felt bereft - having to leave Billy and Oscar to their lives - which, for me, is the sign of a great novel. This is a tender, funny book with the sharp-eyed observation of David Nicholls and the verve of Kate Atkinson. Brilliant.'
--Suzannah Dunn, bestselling author of The Confession of Katherine Howard
`Full of surprises, this acutely observed story of grief and love begins bleakly, ends up full of compassion and has great deal to say about modern families and the world we live in en route. It's a real achievement, and introduces Stephen May as a talent to be reckoned with'
----Melvin Burgess
`Gritty, witty, uplifting, sharp - I think what we have here is the new Nick Hornby' ----Kate Long
`Stephen May's writing is muscular, tender and touching'
----Willy Russell
`A heartbreaking tale, propulsively told. By turns bleak, funny, and tender, LIFE! DEATH! PRIZES is an intoxicating gulp of a novel'
----Christopher Makling
--Mavis Cheek
`Life! Death! Prizes! is a raw, funny and heartfelt book, full of surprising tenderness and hope - a fine achievement'
--A. L. Kennedy
'I LOVED Life! Death! Prizes! Really, really loved it. I was gripped, utterly held and then I felt bereft - having to leave Billy and Oscar to their lives - which, for me, is the sign of a great novel. This is a tender, funny book with the sharp-eyed observation of David Nicholls and the verve of Kate Atkinson. Brilliant.'
--Suzannah Dunn, bestselling author of The Confession of Katherine Howard
`Full of surprises, this acutely observed story of grief and love begins bleakly, ends up full of compassion and has great deal to say about modern families and the world we live in en route. It's a real achievement, and introduces Stephen May as a talent to be reckoned with'
----Melvin Burgess
`Gritty, witty, uplifting, sharp - I think what we have here is the new Nick Hornby' ----Kate Long
`Stephen May's writing is muscular, tender and touching'
----Willy Russell
`A heartbreaking tale, propulsively told. By turns bleak, funny, and tender, LIFE! DEATH! PRIZES is an intoxicating gulp of a novel'
----Christopher Makling
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Billy's Mum is dead. He knows - because he reads about it in magazines - that people die every day in ways that are more random and tragic and stupid than hers, but for nineteen-year-old Billy and his little brother, Oscar, their mother's death in a bungled street robbery is the most random and tragic and stupid thing that could possibly have happened to them. Now Billy must be both mother and father to Oscar, and despite what his well-meaning aunt, the PTA mothers, the social services and Oscar's own prodigal father all think, he knows he is more than up to the job, thank you very much. The boys' new world, where bedtimes are arbitrary, tidiness is optional and healthy home-cooked meals pile up uneaten in the freezer, is built out of chaos and fierce love, but it's also a world that teeters perilously on its axis. And as Billy's obsession with his mother's missing killer grows, he risks losing sight of the one thing that really matters...Funny, bittersweet and unforgettable, Life! Death! Prizes! is a story of grief, resilience and brotherly love.
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