Homes and Experiences: From the writer of hit BBC shows Ladhood and Pls Like
Aug 2020 · Hachette UK
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'A total joy' Laura Kay, author of The Split
'Hilarious and unexpectedly moving' Richard Roper, author of Something to Live For
'Brilliantly written, properly funny and poignant, and such a great takedown of the more absurd aspects of life in the 21st century.' Tom Ellen, author of All About Us
'A delightful and unique take on travel writing.' Katy Wix, author of Delicacy
The setting: Europe. A continent overrun by tourism, where tapas-crawlers cross paths with machine-gun-wielding cops, graffiti tour guides collide with anti-gentrification protestors and, in one classy mountain retreat, a bored pâtissier teaches mindful croissant-making to a bereaved luggage designer.
Witness to this outlandish international spectacle is Mark, comically self-conscious and often thoroughly disturbed by modern life. In his 30s and working as a copywriter for an online travel company despite never having personally ventured further than France, Mark is determined to make up for lost time by embarking on the kind of freewheeling summer expedition he's always dreamed of. And even if his revered older cousin Paris is unable to join him on the trip, he's determined not to let that hold him back. Mark can always email the mysteriously absent Paris about the homes and experiences he has along the way, in intricate and often hilarious detail.
Described by The Times as 'one of the finest comic minds of Generation Y', award-winning comedian Liam Williams brings his inimitable mix of humour and pathos to his unforgettable debut novel.
'Hilarious and unexpectedly moving' Richard Roper, author of Something to Live For
'Brilliantly written, properly funny and poignant, and such a great takedown of the more absurd aspects of life in the 21st century.' Tom Ellen, author of All About Us
'A delightful and unique take on travel writing.' Katy Wix, author of Delicacy
The setting: Europe. A continent overrun by tourism, where tapas-crawlers cross paths with machine-gun-wielding cops, graffiti tour guides collide with anti-gentrification protestors and, in one classy mountain retreat, a bored pâtissier teaches mindful croissant-making to a bereaved luggage designer.
Witness to this outlandish international spectacle is Mark, comically self-conscious and often thoroughly disturbed by modern life. In his 30s and working as a copywriter for an online travel company despite never having personally ventured further than France, Mark is determined to make up for lost time by embarking on the kind of freewheeling summer expedition he's always dreamed of. And even if his revered older cousin Paris is unable to join him on the trip, he's determined not to let that hold him back. Mark can always email the mysteriously absent Paris about the homes and experiences he has along the way, in intricate and often hilarious detail.
Described by The Times as 'one of the finest comic minds of Generation Y', award-winning comedian Liam Williams brings his inimitable mix of humour and pathos to his unforgettable debut novel.
About the author
Liam Williams is an acclaimed stand-up comedian and creator and star of the BBC's Ladhood, which first aired as a BBC Radio 4 comedy in 2015, before being nominated for Best Scripted Comedy at the BBC Audio Drama Awards, and subsequently commissioned for two series for BBC Three, and is the writer of BAFTA nominated BBC Three mockumentary series Pls Like, which will return for a third series in 2020. Williams also starred in the BBC comedies Back to Life and This Time with Alan Partridge, Channel 4's Stath Lets Flats and Friday Night Dinner, and the podcast Capital. Homes & Experiences is his first novel.
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