THE SENSATIONAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE AUGUST PRIZE 2023 'Bloody awful? Bloody
brilliant more like' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Pure joyous storytelling on every page ... A little
treasure of a book' FREDRIK BACKMAN 'A delight from start to finish' JENNIE GODFREY 'Flawless
... So sharp so beguiling so acutely observed' GUARDIAN I'm fizzing. I love not being his
son. Yes. I can feel it in my whole body. A great thrill - as if an adventure has begun. As if
I'm the boy in a book about a boy who finds out his dad is the king of a magical and distant
land. Christmas 1983. In the aftermath of yet another furious argument seven-year-old
Andrev's mother lets him in on a secret: his father is in fact not his father. And so begins
a new kind of childhood in which fathers come and go arriving in red Volvos and sweeping his
mother off her feet. Fathers can be magicians or murderers artists or thieves and like
growing pains or the weather they appear uninvited and leave without warning. Fathers are
drawn to his mother like moths to a flame - but even she can't control how they behave. Vivid
and joyful raw and tender Bloody Awful in Different Ways is a novel about growing up in the
chaos of social change about how love begins and ends and above all about men. Because after
all you learn an awful lot about this strange species when you have seven fathers in seven
years. READERS LOVE BLOODY AWFUL IN DIFFERENT WAYS 'I loved this book so much. It reminds
me a bit of Demon Copperhead but if Fredrik Backman was writing it' FIVE STAR READER REVIEW
'Once every now and again comes a book that I just absorb. I have to press it into people's
hands and say 'you must read this'. This is one of those books: a joyful laugh out loud
heartbreaking and uplifting wonder' FIVE STAR READER REVIEW 'Actually bloody brilliant in
different ways ... Vivid and witty and punchy and just so real' FIVE STAR READER REVIEW
'Hugely readable and often very funny ... Superb' FIVE STAR READER REVIEW '5 joyous stars. I
urge you to read this. It may just be your book of the year. It is mine' FIVE STAR READER
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