Streatham Ice
Book Details
Author(s)John McKelvie
PublisherChipmunkapublishing
ISBN / ASINB0032FOJ0W
ISBN-13978B0032FOJ03
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
Description
"Unsettling and very funny... Alex's voice is relaxed yet playful and sophisticated... Brilliantly catches the mood of teenage life in millennial South London" - Martin Ouvry, The Literary Consultant
Description
To Alex, his new mate McEwan is just a loud wild-boy with nerve, raging at authority and injustice. But when he learns that McEwan is quietly cutting and burning himself, Alex doesn’t want to know (his Dad did himself in, and that still hurts too much). McEwan’s increasingly disturbed behaviour pushes Alex’s friendship to the limits. If only boys would talk more… The joys and madness of Brixton Hill and Streatham High Road amplify Alex’s funny, edgy tale of young male friendship, distress and denial. A witty and conscious work of fiction that will resonate with anybody who see a bit of either Alex or McEwan in them.
About the Author
After a degree in English literature and comparative religion at Leeds, John worked with adolescents in Yorkshire, taught briefly in Suffolk, then became a London hotel porter before training as a social worker and working in mental health. He now works for the national charity Together: Working for Wellbeing (formerly MACA) and lives in south London with his family.
Description
To Alex, his new mate McEwan is just a loud wild-boy with nerve, raging at authority and injustice. But when he learns that McEwan is quietly cutting and burning himself, Alex doesn’t want to know (his Dad did himself in, and that still hurts too much). McEwan’s increasingly disturbed behaviour pushes Alex’s friendship to the limits. If only boys would talk more… The joys and madness of Brixton Hill and Streatham High Road amplify Alex’s funny, edgy tale of young male friendship, distress and denial. A witty and conscious work of fiction that will resonate with anybody who see a bit of either Alex or McEwan in them.
About the Author
After a degree in English literature and comparative religion at Leeds, John worked with adolescents in Yorkshire, taught briefly in Suffolk, then became a London hotel porter before training as a social worker and working in mental health. He now works for the national charity Together: Working for Wellbeing (formerly MACA) and lives in south London with his family.
