Bird Room

When a boy named Will meets Alice, he can’t believe his luck. She’s smart, sexy and, much to Will’s surprise, in love with him. Alice brings meaning to his urban existence and his McJob. But the course of modern love did never run smooth and soon devotion leads Will to something darker. Elsewhere in the city Helen is an actress. Or she will be one day. For now she finds work as a model. She used to be called Clair, but she wants to be something new and she can be anyone. She’s an actress, remember.

Reviews of Bird Room

'A darkly stylish comedy of sexual manners … Killen evokes a grimy world of sexual tension with unerring, uncomfortable accuracy … Much of The Bird Room's appeal is down to Killen's taut, sharp prose style – not flashy but alternately laconic, melancholy and dryly witty – that gives an edgy, sometimes creepy and very contemporary sense of beauty to the everyday and the banal.' Metro