Apples
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'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.
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Praise for Apples
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Funny, tragic and transcendent. If you were ever a teenager, read it
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A retelling of Paradise Lost set on a Middlesbrough housing estate. Apples is... experimental, fearless, funny and frightening - The Observer
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An astonishing debut... Catcher in the Rye meets the Arctic Monkeys - The Times
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If this terrifyingly talented author really does have his finger on the pulse of today's youth, parents should probably just give up right now - New York Times
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Dazzling... I loved Apples... If I were an adolescent, I'd read and re-read [it] until it fell apart - thebookbag.co.uk
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If... Bret Easton Ellis had grown up in a North of England housing project, Less Than Zero might have looked a bit like Apples. It's one of the best books I've ever read about being young, working-class and British
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Crass, graphic, funny and unnerving... well constructed and streaming with gorgeous language, it's a frighteningly recognisable glimpse into a particular experience of adolescence - The Guardian
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