ALL MY PRECIOUS MADNESS

Henry Nash has hauled his way from a working class childhood in Bradford through an undergraduate degree at Oxford and into adulthood and an academic elite But still he can t escape his anger As the world and men in particular continue to disappoint him so does his rage grow in momentum until it becomes almost rapturous And lethal A savagely funny novel that disdains literary and moral conventions All My Precious Madness is also a work of deep empathy even when that also means understanding the darkest parts of humanity It is as critic Stephen Mitchelmore says the book for everyone who longs for an English Bernhard and to read one of the most electric debuts of the last decade