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What I Did

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"This is family life today at its most believable: warm and messy, bored and raging....I LOVED IT."
—Emma Donoghue, author of the New York Times bestseller Room

What I Did by Christopher Wakling is a truly astonishing novel—the chronicle of a family crisis that is equal parts hilarity, poignancy, and horror, told in the singular voice of a most precocious youngster. Room meets The Slap meets The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Wakling's tour de force concerns one rash act that pitches a six-year-old boy and his hapless parents into the center of a social services maelstrom. What I Did is contemporary fiction at its most enthrallingly original—poignant, powerful, and extremely funny—a miraculous work that prompted London's Daily Mail to declare it "the novel that should have won the Booker prize."

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Publisher: HarperCollins

Kindle Book

  • Release date: July 17, 2012

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9780062121707
  • Release date: July 17, 2012

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9780062121707
  • File size: 320 KB
  • Release date: July 17, 2012

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Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

subjects

Fiction Literature

Languages

English

"This is family life today at its most believable: warm and messy, bored and raging....I LOVED IT."
—Emma Donoghue, author of the New York Times bestseller Room

What I Did by Christopher Wakling is a truly astonishing novel—the chronicle of a family crisis that is equal parts hilarity, poignancy, and horror, told in the singular voice of a most precocious youngster. Room meets The Slap meets The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Wakling's tour de force concerns one rash act that pitches a six-year-old boy and his hapless parents into the center of a social services maelstrom. What I Did is contemporary fiction at its most enthrallingly original—poignant, powerful, and extremely funny—a miraculous work that prompted London's Daily Mail to declare it "the novel that should have won the Booker prize."

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