Ah, tremendous. Thanks for the reply. Now for the book, which is a collection of short stories; two novellas bookending smaller stories that all link thematically - here's the blurb:
After a terrorist attack on the capital leaves a wounded nation unified in panic and collectively grieving for an infant killed in the blast, one man finds his own special way of coping with a sudden growing sense of isolation. Meanwhile, a disparate group of damaged D-listers undertake a last-ditch journey to reinvent themselves and shake loose the labels that define them. Millard's follow-up to 2006's first volume is a book of fame and identity, obsession and social shame, and of broken people who feel increasingly further away in a world that grows smaller each day.
You'll notice it's Volume II, but if you haven't read the first one, that won't affect your enjoyment or understanding in the least. Both are available on Amazon, Play.com, or any good online bookseller, or you can quote the ISBN number into the face of the person working at your local bookstore, and they'll be able to order it in.
It's hard for me to objectively compare it to anything, but there are samples of both volumes available on the website, including the first two chapters of Volume II. It is definitely comical and satirical in tone though, with a pretty dark edge running through it. Parental discretion due to adult themes and mucky language, and all that. It's early days right now, so Volume II only has one review, on the Amazon page, so your best bet is to sample it for yourself with the extracts. If you don't do online shopping or don't have a credit card, seeing as this is the local forum, I'd be more than willing to sell directly, as I have a few copies here.
Any and all information can be found at
www.franticplanet.com with updates (and other writing) on the blog you'll find linked there. You can also follow me on Twitter at @franticplanet where I post daily twitter micro-samples or join the Facebook group that's also in the link section.
Anyway, that is my shamelessly comprehensive shill over with, I hope you all check it out and see what a fellow Littlehampton resident came up with. Cheers.
