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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Canongate Books

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9780857861870

RRP: £8.99

PAGES: 240

PUBLICATION DATE:
July 7, 2011

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Grow Up

Ben Brooks

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.

Reviews of Grow Up

'Liquid gold.' – Observer

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Ben Brooks

Ben Brooks was born in 1992 and lives in Gloucestershire. He is also the author of four other books Fences, An Island of Fifty, The Kasahara School of Nihilism, and Upward Coast & Sadie. Brooks’ work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and published in the Dzanc Best of the Web anthology.