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- John Murray
- John Murray
- John Murray
Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
The story of a father accused of child abuse, seen through the eyes of his six-year-old son.
A boy runs across a busy road.
His father catches him and smacks him.
A passer-by looks on.
This is what happens next.
Praise for What I Did
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Gripping, hilarious and tender, this is, without doubt, one of the books of the year - Daily Mail
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The novel brilliantly captures parent-child relations in the raw and the emotions that even the most experienced social worker can't tame - Independent
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An amusing and unsettling story - Saturday Guardian
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This is family life at its most believable: warm and messy, bored and raging. WHAT I DID is every parent's nightmare, but will make you burst out laughing too. I loved it. - Emma Donoghue, author of ROOM
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I loved it! Staggeringly good. Terrifyingly good - Lisa Jewell
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Hugely impressive, gripping, funny and thought provoking - Emily Barr
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Excellent . . . Dark but uplifting - Alex Preston
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[A] fine, challenging novel - Mail on Sunday
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