Ten Storey Love Song

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Bobby, holed up in a Middlesbrough tower block, works on his paintings under the influence of pills-on-toast, acid-on-crackers, and Francis Bacon. When Bent Lewis, a famous art dealer and mover-shaker from London appears, Bobby and friends are sent on a sweaty adventure of self-discovery, hedonism and violence involving a 2.5cm head curved claw hammer.

Spanning one dynamite paragraph, Ten Storey Love Song is a ferocious slab of concrete prose peppered with beauty and delivered with glorious abandon.

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"Milward has that rare gift of being able to capture and distil an entire generation in a single, simple sentence. Brilliant. Very very funny and utterly original."--Helen Walsh, author of Once Upon a Time in England

Author Bio

Richard Milward submitted his first novel to Faber when he was just 16. Apples, his first published novel, came out in 2007 when he was 22 and received huge critical acclaim. In 2007 Richard was shortlisted for the South Bank Show Times Breakthrough Award and He has recently graduated from Central St Martin's Art College with a Fine Art degree. He lives in Middlesbrough, where he grew up.