This isn't just a great first novel; it's a great novel. And Cora, the mad, chaotic, wise, funny narrator, is one of the great characters Roddy Doyle It's not every day you read a modern classic. But this feels destined to become one. A thunderous achievement Nathan Filer, author of The Shock of the Fall Only Here, Only Now heralds the arrival of an urgent and unique new voice, as engaging and as startling as Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, Morvern Callar or The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, and will surely be hailed as one of the great British debut novels David Peace Tom Newlands is the real thing.