Apples (Paperback)

As a distraction from sleazy male admirers, spiteful classmates and her mother's cancer, Eve's eyes are opened to a multicolour life of one-night stands, drug-fuelled discos and cheap plonk. She barely has time to notice Adam. Adam, however, notices Eve. Narrated alternately by Adam and Eve, alongside a cast of delinquents, perverts and butterflies, Apples is an exploration of the difficulties of growing up and of getting 'fucked as quick as you can'. First published in 2007, and reissued now by White Rabbit, Apples arrived like a meteor on the literary landscape with the author, Richard Milward, barely out of his teenage years. A romance, a lovesong to adolescence and a technicolour portrait of life in working class Cleveland, Apples has matured like a fine vintage; its bittersweet top notes of drug-fuelled discos and cheap plonk complemented by its protagonist's sexual frustration and his increasingly compulsive behaviour.