About the Author

Richard Milward was born in Middlesbrough in 1984. His cult debut Apples was published in 2007 when Richard was twenty-two years old, followed by Ten Storey Love Song in 2009 and Kimberly's Capital Punishment in 2012. Apples was shortlisted for The South Bank Show/Times Breakthrough Award 2008, Ten Storey Love Song was chosen as one of Waterstones New Voices 2009, and Kimberly's Capital Punishment was picked as Time Out Book of the Week in 2012. Both Apples and Ten Storey Love Song were adapted for the stage, winning awards at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Reviews

Funny, tragic and transcendent. If you were ever a teenager, read it
*Lauren Laverne*

A retelling of Paradise Lost set on a Middlesbrough housing estate. Apples is... experimental, fearless, funny and frightening
*The Observer*

An astonishing debut . . . Catcher in the Rye meets the Arctic Monkeys
*The Times*

If this terrifyingly talented author really does have his finger on the pulse of today's youth, parents should probably just give up right now
*New York Times*

Dazzling . . . I loved Apples . . . If I were an adolescent, I'd read and re-read [it] until it fell apart
*thebookbag*

If Bret Easton Ellis had grown up in a North of England housing project, Less Than Zero might have looked a bit like Apples. It's one of the best books I've ever read about being young, working-class and British
*Irvine Welsh*

Crass, graphic, funny and unnerving . . . well constructed and streaming with gorgeous language, it's a frighteningly recognisable glimpse into a particular experience of adolescence
*The Guardian*

Richard Milward's no-holds-barred debut is the story of a boy named Adam and a girl named Eve . . . alongside chapters told by Adam and Eve are esoteric interludes where the narrator is a butterfly or an unborn baby, and each time Milward acquits himself brilliantly... Apples is an electrifying book, as frightening as it is funny, full of words that will have you running to urbandictionary.com, before cunningly using them in your own everyday speech
*The Times*