A sharp, sardonic, perceptive and painfully funny book about money, love and the sorrows and joys of modern family life by a talented debut author.
Tim Walker was born in Surrey in 1980. He spent four years in California as the Los Angeles correspondent for the Independent. He lives in London with his family.
A most impressive, assured and enjoyable debut.
*Independent*
Very funny…Walker [has a] flair for scene-setting.
*Guardian*
[A] sharply written, shrewdly observed, satirically funny look at
the middle-class obsession with property, the dream that has turned
into a nightmare for a generation.
*Herald*
Completion is a witty, deftly-written portrait of a dysfunctional
family in contemporary Britain. Revealing about the young:
uncomfortably acute about their parents.
*Spectator, Books of the Year*
Clever idea: Tim Walker’s adroit debut novel tells the story of a
scattered London family through their relationship to their
Highbury home. This is a story of the rampant property mania that
dominates the national conversation and an acute satire on urban
First World problems. It’s wittily done…Walker imagines himself
equally confidently into the minds of a rich retiree, an expat mum
and a Shoreditch hipster…So timely…Walker’s characters are fully
fleshed…[and] there are lots of nice touches…This is a proper
London novel, and properly good fun.
*Evening Standard*
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