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The A to Z game. For Ivo, it’s a way to pass the time, a way to avoid the pain, and a way to think about what really got him here.
His hospice nurse suggested it. Think of a body part for each letter, and think of memories connected to each one. And so begins the revealing of his misspent life: the terrible teenage choices, friendships made and cracked, love he’ll never get back. He remembers the girl who tried to help him, the friend who wouldn’t let her, and the sickness that chases him even now.
Refreshing and thought-provoking, The A to Z of You and Me shows the raw unraveling of a life lived loud and hard. All our choices have consequences. But what happens after?
Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize, 2015.
“Absolutely bloody heart-rending [but] often wonderfully funny” Kate Saunders, The Times
“Absolutely bloody heart-rending [but] often wonderfully funny”
“Warm, wry, thoughtful and devastating… life-enhancing” Patricia Nicol, The Sunday Times
“Warm, wry, thoughtful and devastating… life-enhancing”
“A worthy inheritor of the lip-trembling English tradition” The Guardian
“A worthy inheritor of the lip-trembling English tradition”
“An elegance… and a compassion… that’s rare to find in a debut” The Independent
“An elegance… and a compassion… that’s rare to find in a debut”
“An engagingly light touch, shot through with humour” Fanny Blake, Daily Mail
“An engagingly light touch, shot through with humour”
“A humor-filled tear-at-the-heartstrings story… expertly crafted” Publishers Weekly
“A humor-filled tear-at-the-heartstrings story… expertly crafted”
“Deeply touching… Every moment you spend with this book will be worth it” The Globe and Mail
“Deeply touching… Every moment you spend with this book will be worth it”
Profile: New Faces of Fiction 2015 — The Observer
Videos from None Of My Own Work — other people's songs arranged and performed by The Jims. Click any video to watch on YouTube.
Editorial design for Astronomy & Geophysics, the journal of the Royal Astronomical Society. Covers, feature spreads, and typographic layouts across issues of Vol. 62–63.