'A literary rendering of the Top Boy generation... I cannot conjure another work which captures this culture in such depth - or with such brutal honesty - as only lived experience can tell ' Graeme Armstrong, author of The Young Team'An astonishingly powerful book'...

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020Aand Spectatorand Book of the Year A literary rendering of theand Top Boyand generation… I cannot conjure another work which captures this culture in such depth - or with such brutal honesty - as only lived experience can tell...

This life is like being in an ocean. Some people keep swimming towards the bottom. Some people touch the bottom with one foot, or even both, and then push themselves off it to get back up to the top, where you can breathe. Others...