"After a childhood of abuse at the hands of family and teachers, I couldn't be 'shut up' any more...My anger was such that if My Fault hadn't been written then, quite seriously, I would have killed."
After being expelled from St Martins School of Art in 1981, for publishing what was described as "the worst type of toilet wall humour," Billy Childish moved back to his home town of Chatham and started writing a novel to explode the "lie of my family."
This timely publication of Childish's first novel re-establishes him as the enfant terrible of the dispossessed, the 'amateur' who has influenced a generation of confessional writers, musicians and artists.

Review

"A self-made intellectual of a particularly English stripe, Mr Childish has sworn loyalty to populist art at its rawest." (The New York Times)

"Britain's greatest cultural asset." (Guardian)

"Raw, unmediating, bruisingly shocking." (Daily Telegraph)

"Terse, gutsy and powerfully humane." (Time Out)

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