Brat : Scribner UK : 9781398525313 : 1398525316 : 06 Jun 2024 : 'Full of dark, deadpan humour, Brat is a raucous story of the messy, messed-up business of living, dying and having a family.' Financial Times   'A moving coming-of-age family story' Observer     'Iconic', Radio 1 I was in the waiting room. Then I was in the examination room.   Gabriel's skin is falling off.   His dad is dead.   He owes his editor a novel.   His girlfriend won't answer his calls.   Tasked by his horribly well-adjusted brother with clearing out the family home for sale, Gabriel's sanity quickly begins to unravel. His parents' old manuscripts appear to change each time he reads them. A bizarre home video hints at long-buried secrets. And there's a hideous man in the garden. Disquieting and hilarious, taut yet lyrical, blisteringly-paced but formally inventive, Brat is a mediation on grief, art and love that will leave you altered, breathless and desperate for more.    From a stunningly original new tal