Böcker av Keiran Goddard

'Shows us how to love one another and hold on to what matters most' Tice Cin, author of Keeping the HouseFive friends. Five lives. Countless hopes.Patrick, Shiv, Rian, Oli and Conor grew up on the estate together, but now Rian is rich and lives a different life. Oli is fading by the day, drinking and snorting his way through the endless boredom, while Conor has a baby on the way and a business plan he hopes will change everything. Patrick and Shiv are as in love as ever, but when an old secret is revealed it threatens to break them all apart ...'A multivocal narrative focusing on a working-class community in Birmingham ... reminiscent of Jon McGregor's most successful novels, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things and Reservoir 13' Barney Norris, Guardian'Tender, violent, affecting ... this book takes real pleasure in language' The i'A virtuosic and devastating exploration of the relationships that bind us, and the places that always call us back' Sophie Mackintosh, author of The Water Cure [could cut this if space too tight]'This gut-wrenching novel confirms Goddard as one of the best writers of our time' Lucia Osborne-Crowley, author of My Body Keeps Your Secrets

'A virtuosic and devastating exploration of the relationships that bind us, and the places that always call us back. Tender and fierce in turn, Goddard writes about class and friendship with the deftest of touches' Sophie Mackintosh, author of The Water Cure'Keiran Goddard can make you laugh and weep in the same paragraph. This is such a humane, beautiful novel about being from a place you can neither leave nor stay in' Heather Parry, author of Orpheus Builds a Girl'Enraging, enthralling and ultimately heart-breaking' Aidan Cottrell-Boyce, author of The End of Nightwork'The language is swaggering, the character development deeply subtle ... genuinely beautiful' Niamh Campbell, author of We Were Young'One of the most beautiful novels I've read in a very long time, full of rare elegance, sorrow, wit and warmth, I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning tells the story of what's left when dreaming feels impossible' Ali Millar, author of The Last Days

'Beautiful and very funny' Brett Anderson'This book glows in the heart of the reader' Max Porter'This book is such a sneaky head f*ck - an epic poem in an ancient style about the brutalities of modern love, a masculine interrogation of feminine heartbreak, a really beautiful way to spend an evening' Lena DunhamThe second time you came, we went from bar to bar to bar. It made the city feel smaller. Like a map we were folding to the size of a stamp. We were good at that. We could have fit an entire universe inside a matchbox. Love builds up little by little and that's why it makes people reach for words like root and sediment and other words to do with rocks and trees. But what about the dismantling? Does it happen that way too? Because it feels like it is happening much, much faster. And I am reaching for words like landslide and like wave and like storm ...Exquisitely crafted, wildly imaginative and as darkly funny as it is moving, Hourglass is a revolutionary love story. It turns time upside down, combs the intimate wreckage of heartbreak for something universal, and asks what it means to lose what you love.'Hourglass will stay with me for a long time. Hypnotic' Lemn Sissay'Evocative, ecstatic and saturated with off-kilter wit' Alexandra Kleeman