Grow Up
- 7 Jul 2011
- 9780857861870
- £9.99
- 240 pp
- 129×198mm
- 7 Jul 2011
- 9780857861887
- £7.99
- 240 pp
- 7 Jul 2011
- 9780857862303
- £17.99
- 6 hrs 14 min
In a few words
The first great coming of age novel for the In-Betweeners generation
In a few words
The first great coming of age novel for the In-Betweeners generation
In a few words
The first great coming of age novel for the In-Betweeners generation read by John Hasler
Ben Brooks is a magical imp who pumps out dark nuggets of poetry and makes you snort with laughter.
Noel Fielding
Sickeningly good. So confident, so stylish. An unacceptably witty and original debut.
Tim Key
Ben Brooks is a magical imp who pumps out dark nuggets of poetry and makes you snort with laughter.
Noel Fielding
Sickeningly good. So confident, so stylish. An unacceptably witty and original debut.
Tim Key
Ben Brooks is a magical imp who pumps out dark nuggets of poetry and makes you snort with laughter.
Noel Fielding
Sickeningly good. So confident, so stylish. An unacceptably witty and original debut.
Tim Key
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Who says youth is wasted on the young?
Jasper wants to get on in the world, but he’s got a lot on his plate: A-levels, his mother pushing him to overachieve, weekly visits to his psychologist, come-downs, YouTube suicides and pregnant one-night-stands. Then there’s his stepdad – 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.
More about
the book
Who says youth is wasted on the young?
Jasper wants to get on in the world, but he’s got a lot on his plate: A-levels, his mother pushing him to overachieve, weekly visits to his psychologist, come-downs, YouTube suicides and pregnant one-night-stands. Then there’s his stepdad – 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.
More about
the book
Who says youth is wasted on the young?
Jasper wants to get on in the world, but he’s got a lot on his plate: A-levels, his mother pushing him to overachieve, weekly visits to his psychologist, come-downs, YouTube suicides and pregnant one-night-stands. Then there’s his stepdad – 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.
GROW UP is absolutely knockout - Brooks is blessed with a blinding grasp of terse, lyrical prose, and has the timing of a genius stand-up comic. Top class.
Richard Milward Author Of Apples
The most convincing portrayal of the adolescent mind since Vernon God Little - Like Holden Caulfield on Mephedrone.'
Ewan Morrison
Engaging, funny and sharply-written. I loved it. Somehow manages to be both brutally uncompromising and really warm-hearted.
Chris Killen
In a world in which youth is fetishised as much as it is, Brooks revels in what everyone secretly knows - namely, that teenagers are all, in some way or another, idiots. Jasper and his friends are as earnest as they are ironic, selfish, cruel, giddy and unthinking. Adults, he is confident, are clueless and easily manipulated ... although by the end he starts to twig that perhaps they are not as stupid as he would like to believe.
Ben Machell
TimesGROW UP is absolutely knockout - Brooks is blessed with a blinding grasp of terse, lyrical prose, and has the timing of a genius stand-up comic. Top class.
Richard Milward Author Of Apples
The most convincing portrayal of the adolescent mind since Vernon God Little - Like Holden Caulfield on Mephedrone.'
Ewan Morrison
Engaging, funny and sharply-written. I loved it. Somehow manages to be both brutally uncompromising and really warm-hearted.
Chris Killen
In a world in which youth is fetishised as much as it is, Brooks revels in what everyone secretly knows - namely, that teenagers are all, in some way or another, idiots. Jasper and his friends are as earnest as they are ironic, selfish, cruel, giddy and unthinking. Adults, he is confident, are clueless and easily manipulated ... although by the end he starts to twig that perhaps they are not as stupid as he would like to believe.
Ben Machell
TimesGROW UP is absolutely knockout - Brooks is blessed with a blinding grasp of terse, lyrical prose, and has the timing of a genius stand-up comic. Top class.
Richard Milward Author Of Apples
The most convincing portrayal of the adolescent mind since Vernon God Little - Like Holden Caulfield on Mephedrone.'
Ewan Morrison
Engaging, funny and sharply-written. I loved it. Somehow manages to be both brutally uncompromising and really warm-hearted.
Chris Killen
In a world in which youth is fetishised as much as it is, Brooks revels in what everyone secretly knows - namely, that teenagers are all, in some way or another, idiots. Jasper and his friends are as earnest as they are ironic, selfish, cruel, giddy and unthinking. Adults, he is confident, are clueless and easily manipulated ... although by the end he starts to twig that perhaps they are not as stupid as he would like to believe.
Ben Machell
Times
Ben Brooks
View profileBen Brooks was born in 1992 and lives in Gloucestershire. He is also the author of 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.
Ben Brooks
View profileBen Brooks was born in 1992 and lives in Gloucestershire. He is also the author of 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.
Ben Brooks
View profileBen Brooks was born in 1992 and lives in Gloucestershire. He is also the author of 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.
