Apples

The cult classic debut novel, re-launched as part of a White Rabbit repackage of Richard Milward's work to support his first new novel in a decade. Apples is a shocking, tender and funny debut novel from a twenty-one year old, telling the story of housing estate teens Adam and Eve. Skins meets Trainspotting in Middlesbrough.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 16 March 2023
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co

'We got a McDonald's the night my mam got lung cancer.'

As a distraction from sleazy male admirers, spiteful classmates and her mother's cancer, Eve's eyes are opened to a multicolour life of one-night stands, drug-fuelled discos and cheap booze. She barely has time to notice the reclusive, obsessive-compulsive Adam. Adam, however, notices Eve.

Narrated alternately by Adam and Eve alongside a cast of delinquents, foetuses and butterflies, Apples is an exploration of the sickly-sweet turmoil of growing up and the hazards of getting 'fucked as quick as you can'.

First published in 2007 and reissued now by White Rabbit, Apples arrived like a meteor on the literary landscape with Milward barely out of his teenage years.

Weight: 204g
Dimension: 129 x 198 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781399602433