Bed - Softcover

Whitehouse, David

3.2

1,724 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184767982X ISBN 13: 9781847679826

Publisher: Canongate Books, 2012

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Every family has a story. Mal was ours.

He was always different from the other kids. Larger than life. Trips to pantomimes were ruined by him stripping off his clothes. But people loved him. Especially Lou; it seemed like their love would last forever. Then something happened that changed everything . . . Mal grew up.

Bed is a coming-of-age story like no other. It chronicles what love, loss and family can do to you in a lifetime.

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Review:

"Hilarious and tragic; a perfectly brilliant debut" (The Times)

"Staggering, inventive and heartbreakingly beautiful." (Esquire)

"A story [about] families and the love that sustains and smothers. Bed is brilliantly imagined" (Daily Mail)

"Finally someone set a bestseller in my bedroom. And in yours..." (DBC Pierre)

"Number One Summer Read" (Grazia)

"David Whitehouse has taken what might be a gimmicky hook in a lesser writer's hands--a romance triangulating around a bedridden media spectacle, the world's most obese man--and turned it, through lapidary prose, into a soulful meditation on a fraternal love as singular as it is universal." (Teddy Wayne, author of KAPITOIL)

"Brilliant and very expressive. Mal is an extremely vivid firework of a character." (Greg Eden Waterstones.co.uk)

"The best new novel I've read in ages." (Guardian)

Book Description:

2011's most heart-breaking debut

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