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�Gabriel Smith has written a truly unique and surprising book. He is the rarest thing: a distinctive stylist on the line and structure level. Brat is so strange and so funny. I laughed a lot while reading.� Rachel Connolly, author of Lazy City 'Iconic', Radio 1 'i've never heard of you. good luck with your book tho !' Charli XCX on X, formerly Twitter I was in the waiting room. Then I was in the examination room. Gabriel�s skin is falling off. His dad is dead. He owes his editor a novel. His girlfriend won�t answer his calls. Tasked by his horribly well-adjusted brother with clearing out the family home for sale, Gabriel�s sanity quickly begins to unravel. His parents� old manuscripts appear to change each time he reads them. A bizarre home video hints at long-buried secrets. And there�s a hideous man in the garden. Disquieting and hilarious, taut yet lyrical, blisteringly-paced but formally inventive, Brat is a mediation on grief, art and love that will leave you altered, breathless and desperate for more. From a stunningly original new talent, this is a debut novel unlike anything you have read before. �Messy with glitched realities and body horror, Brat breathes the same thrillingly claustrophobic air as Inland Empire and Ubik. It�s a skin-shedding ouroboros of grief and laughter, and the most brain-melting British debut I�ve read in ages.� Ed Park, author of Same Bed Different Dreams �Gabriel Smith�s prose is like if Joan Didion and Shirley Jackson took Xanax and used the internet. Brat is a sharp, eerie, confident debut about grief, memory, art, and so much more. Smith is a major new talent.� Jordan Castro, author of The Novelist �Gabriel Smith�s jauntily creepy and hilarious tale of a grief-stalked scapegrace�s sloughing-off and regeneration of selves in the filial murk of a moldering homestead is a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man for a new, quaking generation. Brat will unnerve and seduce you.� Garielle Lutz, author of Worsted