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Apples (Paperback)

by Richard Milward (Author)
3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
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  • Paperback: 200 pages
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber (19 April 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0571232825
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571232826
  • Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 13.6 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 26,454 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The Times Magazine

'Apples is an astonishing debut ... Catcher in the Rye meets the Arctic Monkeys.'


Financial Times

'A wonderful take on amoral youth ... Apples is unlike any other novel I've read. Who knows? We may have discovered our J. D. Salinger early. '
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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Temptation, 1 May 2007
By kehs (Hertfordshire, England) - See all my reviews
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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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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars On the fence., 18 Aug 2007
By J. MacDonald (Inverness, Scotland) - See all my reviews
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'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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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Simply brilliant!, 21 Feb 2008
By SJSmith (UK) - See all my reviews
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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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5.0 out of 5 stars I couldn't put this down!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Great story, poor ending
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3.0 out of 5 stars 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 22 months ago by Lady Flyte

3.0 out of 5 stars Apples and Pairs
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Published 23 months ago by A reader

3.0 out of 5 stars promising voice
I love the downbeat matter of factness in Milwards descriptions and also his complete disregards for what would normally be plot. Read more
Published 23 months ago by charlie d

4.0 out of 5 stars The UK's "Less than Zero"
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1.0 out of 5 stars write what you know
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Published on 27 Sep 2007 by B. Sanchez

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