BRAT

Looking up at the ceiling, I saw new mould.Eyes staring out of it upside down.Vines growing in, from the outside, stems reaching through new cracks in the windows, the walls.   Gabriel’s skin is falling off. His dad is dead. He owes his editor a novel. His girlfriend won’t answer his calls. Hiding in his parents’ dilapidated house, avoiding the estate agent and his horribly well-adjusted brother, Gabriel’s sanity is beginning to unravel. There’s a man with a deer mask in the garden. His mother’s old manuscript is changing every time he reads it. And something very strange is happening on his old family VHS tapes… From startling, major new talent Gabriel Smith, this is a ghost story unlike any you’ve read before; dark, disquieting, and profoundly funny. Formally inventive and dazzlingly clever, BRAT is a meditation on grief and art that will haunt you long after you’ve finished turning the pages.The brilliant and breathless debut novel that will appeal to fans of Ottessa Moshfegh, Max Porter and Julia May Jonas