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What I Did

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19th January 2012

Price: £9.99

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Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780719569098

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A boy runs across a busy road.
His father catches him and smacks him.
A passer-by looks on.

This is what happens next.

Reviews

Daily Mail
Gripping, hilarious and tender, this is, without doubt, one of the books of the year
Independent
The novel brilliantly captures parent-child relations in the raw and the emotions that even the most experienced social worker can't tame
Saturday Guardian
An amusing and unsettling story
Emma Donoghue, author of ROOM
This is family life at its most believable: warm and messy, bored and raging. WHAT I DID is every parent's nightmare, but will make you burst out laughing too. I loved it.
Lisa Jewell
I loved it! Staggeringly good. Terrifyingly good
Emily Barr
Hugely impressive, gripping, funny and thought provoking
Alex Preston
Excellent . . . Dark but uplifting
Mail on Sunday
[A] fine, challenging novel