BRAT : A Ghost Story - Signed First Edition

by Smith, Gabriel | Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published 06/06/2024 by Simon & Schuster Ltd in the United Kingdom
Hardback | 336 pages
216 x 135mm | 0g

Signed First Edition - Hardback - Publishes June 6th

“Gabriel Smith has written a truly unique and surprising book. He is the rarest thing: a distinctive stylist on the line and structure level. Brat is so strange and so funny. I laughed a lot while reading.” Rachel Connolly, author of Lazy City

'Iconic', Radio 1

'i've never heard of you. good luck with your book tho !' Charli XCX on X, formerly Twitter

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 talent, this is a debut novel unlike anything you have read before.