Nathan Newman
How to Leave the House
How to Leave the House
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A funny and original debut novel about a middle-aged dentist, a tortured imam, an octogenarian, a troubled teenager, and a class-traitor mother and her childhood boyfriend. It explores themes of connection, love, friendship, and the lies we tell ourselves, and is described as a "wild and funny ride through modern life" by the Financial Times and "truly original" by Nicola Dinan.
Format: Hardback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 02 May 2024
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
The funniest, wildest, and most original debut novel of 2024!
A wild and funny ride through modern life!
Financial Times
Gobby, barbed, and garrulous!
Eley Williams
Truly original!
Nicola Dinan, author of Bellies
Genuinely hilarious!
Keiran Goddard, author of Hourglass
It's Natwest's last day before he leaves for university, and there's only one thing on his mind: the deeply embarrassing package he ordered to his house - which still hasn't arrived. He won't leave town without it. Any alternative is too distressing to consider.
This is the story of twenty-four hours in the life of NATWEST, and his small-town odyssey in pursuit of the missing package. And yet, it's also the story of a MIDDLE-AGED DENTIST who dreams of being a respected artist - but the only thing he can seem to paint is the human mouth. And it's the story of a TORTURED IMAM involved in a quasi-romantic entanglement with the local vicar; and an OCTOGENARIAN mourning the death of her secretive husband; and a TROUBLED TEENAGER whose nudes have leaked on the internet. It's the story of Natwest's obnoxious EX-BOYFRIEND, and his CLASS-TRAITOR MOTHER, and her CHILDHOOD BOYFRIEND, and the life-changing secrets he knows about Natwest's past.
Alternating between Natwest's idiosyncratic inner world and the perspectives of the other characters - and dazzling in its energy, imagination, and originality - this is an outrageously funny and tenderly moving story about being connected to everyone and everything at all times; about love, friendship, and the lies we tell ourselves; about unhappy endings, happy endings - and whether anything really is as simple as one or the other.
Weight: 436g
Dimension: 224 x 146 x 33 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780349145631
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