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`A writer of imagination and filthy insight ... a book shot through with flashes of unexpected warmth and hardcore lyricism.' --Independent
`The fiendishly young Milward stuffs all the exuberance and vulgarity of youth into this tale of low-life redemption.'
--Sunday Telegraph
`The fiendishly young Milward stuffs all the exuberance and vulgarity of youth into this tale of low-life redemption.'
--Sunday Telegraph
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The utterly unique and arresting sophomore novel from the author of Apples, one of the most sensational British debuts of 2007.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I absolutely loved Apples and read it a few years ago at university and probably related to the characters a little. I was worried with Ten Storey Love Song that I wouldn't feel quite the same as the characters are grown adults and perhaps I would not have the same level of patience with their ridiculous decisions...I was completely wrong.
Milward effortlessly creates a drug filled narrative filled with excitement, emotion and humour. Less than 20 pages in, I could not put it down. Only being a few years older than me, I envy his work and ability to write so rawly about life in a council estate.
A brilliant read, surprisingly crude and something to recommend to your mates (although maybe not your mum!).
Milward effortlessly creates a drug filled narrative filled with excitement, emotion and humour. Less than 20 pages in, I could not put it down. Only being a few years older than me, I envy his work and ability to write so rawly about life in a council estate.
A brilliant read, surprisingly crude and something to recommend to your mates (although maybe not your mum!).
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I seriously love this novel! I can't recall the last time I was so touched, laughed so hard and just completely entertained in every way. I'm reading it for the third time, now, andI'm starting to feel I know these characters as well as my real life friends. Just a perfect experience and I cannot rate it highly enough. The moment it arrives on Kindle I'm downloading that too. Just do it!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I'll admit that when I purchased this book I was completely ignorant of Richard Milward's work, and that I only picked up the title on a whim because I'd forgotten to bring a book to read on a long train journey and this looked to be the most interesting title in the station's branch of WH-Smiths... Never before have I been so glad to be forgetful!
Ten Storey Love Song now ranks as my #1 book of all time, bar none. Written in a very Kerouac fashion (no chapters or paragraphs, just one continuous block of prose)and with a style that reminds me of Hunter S Thompson at his finest. Indeed, I like to think of this book as 'Fear & Loathing in Las 'Boro'.
Poetic, beautiful and somehow making the drudgery of an impoverished life in a Middlesbrough tower block seem romantic, you can't help but fall in love with this book.
Milward's 'Apples' has been heaped with critical praise, went on to become a stage production and is tipped be adapted for TV. But to my mind TSL surpasses his debut by a long way.
Ten Storey Love Song now ranks as my #1 book of all time, bar none. Written in a very Kerouac fashion (no chapters or paragraphs, just one continuous block of prose)and with a style that reminds me of Hunter S Thompson at his finest. Indeed, I like to think of this book as 'Fear & Loathing in Las 'Boro'.
Poetic, beautiful and somehow making the drudgery of an impoverished life in a Middlesbrough tower block seem romantic, you can't help but fall in love with this book.
Milward's 'Apples' has been heaped with critical praise, went on to become a stage production and is tipped be adapted for TV. But to my mind TSL surpasses his debut by a long way.
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Exciting, different and brilliant prose. Plot is a little weak...
What's the longest paragraph you've ever read? This is mine. But More on that later.
Ten Storey Love Song follows several lives in a block of flats on a Middlesborough... Read more
Ten Storey Love Song follows several lives in a block of flats on a Middlesborough... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Book Republik
Dire, unoriginal and could have been so much better...
There are so many things wrong with this book, and that's a shame because there are some cracking nuggets of great prose hidden in a sea of well,unnecessary prose. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Rach
clever rude sharp perfect
I m not good at writing reviews sorry but this was what the title implies and at the end i found myself missing the characters so much i was reading slowly.
Published 22 months ago by junkynurse
Ten Storey Welsh Song
After breezing through this enjoyable enough druggy romp, and it IS very entertaining in parts - it took a while to figure out why it didn't deeply satisfy the stomach in the same... Read more
Published on 24 Sep 2009 by DUDLEY NIGHTSHADE
Millward = Genius
This is England, its horrible and unmissable.
If Richard Millward is not the UK's best young writer then I will go and live in Middlesbrough. Read more
If Richard Millward is not the UK's best young writer then I will go and live in Middlesbrough. Read more
Published on 10 Sep 2009 by Ryan
Another classic from Milward
I thought Apples was great but so many authors have struggled with their subsequent novels after stella debuts (Zadie Smith, Kate Atkinson). Read more
Published on 21 April 2009 by Caterkiller
Gets to the crux of it
Great pace, dialogue and atmosphere. A couple of minor characters a little 2D, however, they work well in context of a mad-drug-crazed-teenage-splurge. Read more
Published on 6 April 2009 by Howard Change
A peach of a book
Second novel syndrome.
Not as bad as second album syndrome - you can avoid reading a book but music floods in from everywhere innit - but if your first book was rated by... Read more
Not as bad as second album syndrome - you can avoid reading a book but music floods in from everywhere innit - but if your first book was rated by... Read more
Published on 12 Feb 2009 by NB
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