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What I Did - by Christopher Wakling (Paperback)

What I Did - by  Christopher Wakling (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"This is family life today at its most believable: warm and messy, bored and raging....I LOVED IT."--Emma Donoghue, author of the New York Times bestseller Room What I Did by Christopher Wakling is a truly astonishing novel--the chronicle of a family crisis that is equal parts hilarity, poignancy, and horror, told in the singular voice of a most precocious youngster. Room meets The Slap meets The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Wakling's tour de force concerns one rash act that pitches a six-year-old boy and his hapless parents into the center of a social services maelstrom. What I Did is contemporary fiction at its most enthrallingly original--poignant, powerful, and extremely funny--a miraculous work that prompted London's Daily Mail to declare it "the novel that should have won the Booker prize."<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>"This is family life today at its most believable: warm and messy, bored and raging....I LOVED IT."<br />--Emma Donoghue, author of the <em>New York Times</em> bestseller <em>Room</em><br /> <br /><em>What I Did</em> by Christopher Wakling is a truly astonishing novel--the chronicle of a family crisis that is equal parts hilarity, poignancy, and horror, told in the singular voice of a most precocious youngster. <em>Room</em> meets <em>The Slap</em> meets <em>The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time</em>, Wakling's tour de force concerns one rash act that pitches a six-year-old boy and his hapless parents into the center of a social services maelstrom. <em>What I Did</em> is contemporary fiction at its most enthrallingly original--poignant, powerful, and extremely funny--a miraculous work that prompted London's <em>Daily Mail</em> to declare it "the novel that should have won the Booker prize."<br /><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>This is a story about a terrible thing which happens to me. I have to warn you that nobody is bad or good here, or rather everyone is a bit bad and a bit good and the bad and the good moluscules get mixed up against each other and produce terrible chemical reactions. Did you know cheetahs cannot retract their claws?</p><p>Six-year-old Billy loves animals, David Attenborough documentaries, and sneakers that flash when he runs. He does not love sitting still, the blood-soaked sky in <em>Watership Down</em>, or his father's cell phone.</p><p>When Billy runs into a busy street, ignoring his father's commands, he sets in motion a series of unexpected, family-altering events. <em>What I Did</em> is a heart-wrenching reminder of how best intentions can lead to disastrous consequences, and how one rash decision can take on a life of its own. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Warm, hilarious, eye-wateringly moving, with the cleverest use of point of view since Jane Austen . . . WHAT I DID is the novel that should have won the Booker prize."--Daily Mail (London), Christmas Pick in the literary fiction category<br><br>"Like Christos Tsiolkas' The Slap, [WHAT I DID] documents one family's attempt to cope with the aftermath of a public outburst and the failure of their own innocent attempts to put things right . . . an affecting, thought-provoking tale of parent-child relations."--<em>Booklist</em><br><br>"Much in the vein of Atonement, a well-intentioned innocent threatens to destroy the people he loves most . . . affecting."--<em>Publishers Weekly</em><br><br>"A child's view of the actions and attitudes of adults has seldom been so compellingly or tenaciously illustrated as by Wakling in this perfect little book."--Irish Times<br><br>"A powerful parable of 21st century society . . . a fine, challenging novel."--Mail on Sunday<br><br>"A powerful, poignant and funny novel, perched on the precarious line between protecting children and destroying families."--Melbourne Age<br><br>"Amusing and unsettling . . . What I Did lets us into the mind of a child who is comically literal and utterly at sea in the world of adults."--The Guardian<br><br>"Excellent . . . Dark but uplifting."--Alex Preston, author of This Bleeding City<br><br>"Gripping, hilarious, tender and a whole lot more, this is, without doubt, one of the books of the year."--Daily Mail (London)<br><br>"Horribly plausible . . . [What I Did] brilliantly captures parent-child relations in the raw."--The Independent<br><br>"Hugely impressive, gripping, funny and thought provoking."--Emily Barr, bestselling author of Backpack<br><br>"I loved it! Staggeringly good. Terrifyingly good."--Lisa Jewell, bestselling author of Ralph's Party<br><br>"This is family life today at its most believable: warm and messy, bored and raging, and above all, self-conscious. WHAT I DID is every parent's nightmare, but will make you burst out laughing too. I loved it."--Emma Donoghue<br><br>"Wakling creates believable conflict from the everyday facts of a child going just too far and a parent losing it . . . The novel is a strong depiction of a family in crisis."--Sunday Age (Melbourne)<br>

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