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    Apples

    By Richard Milward and John Retallack

    3.5/5

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    About this ebook

    Adapted for stage, Apples is set on a Middlesbrough council estate, this astonishing piece of writing by 23 year old Richard Milward, is an electrifying collision of Irvine Welsh and Virginia Woolf. Streams of poetic, impassioned and often hilarious words pour from five fifteen year olds as they negotiate a world where the adults are absent, drugs are everywhere, sex is desperate and life is both terrifying and thrilling.

    A dazzling, tragicomic love story of adolescence based on the astonishing debut novel by Richard Milward. Shameless, ruthless and intensely poetic, Apples articulates what it is like to be young.

    Apples was the winner of the coveted Bank of Scotland Herald Angel Award at the 2010 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The prize is awarded for excellence in the Edinburgh Festival.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOBERON BOOKS Ltd
    Release dateMay 28, 2012
    ISBN9781849435659
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    • 3/5
      Everyone loves precocity, and part of the reason this book has been successful is surely because the author was still mis-spending his youth at the time, albeit by writing a novel. Some passages, like the miserable attempts to navigate a nightclub, reminded me of Young Skins in their brilliantly bleak accuracy The levels of sex 'n' drugs seemed a little excessive, but then I never grew up in Middlesbrough. The characters seemed a little one-note - the oddball, the tart with a heart etc - and the writing didn't dazzle me, but it's definitely an inventive and well-executed exploration of a world you rarely read about, in the news or the fiction aisles.
    • 4/5
      I stumbled across this novel by accident and was drawn to the great cover. I was pleasantly surprised! This is probably my favourite YA novel, I found its raw style very intriguing. The love story between the main protagonists Adam and Eve is realistic, if somewhat depressing. I think most teenagers can relate to this more easily than to Romeo and Juliet, but I can also imagine lots of people would be repelled by the dreary setting and its unadorned description.
    • 3/5
      I found this book to be a little hard to follow, and very strange. No real closure at the end, just a bunch of crazy people spiraling out of control like how the story started off.
    • 3/5
      A novel I was excited to get as soon as I read a blurb about it, one of the few books I really wish I had read a little bit before I just bought it. It was difficult to follow, seemed pointless and none of the characters were even remotely worth your time sympathizing with, I often felt just like screaming at them over how stupid they were being. Also, so heavy on the UK slang that I had to sit and look up so many phrases even to keep a steady flow, and I though I had a pretty decent grasp on things like that. Overall not worth my time, and a very difficult read.
    • 5/5
      I loved this book from start to finish. It's shocking, dramatic and lots of other things as well but one thing is certain it is realistic. I've worked in the area the book is set and knew the school mentioned quite well, and it is accurate narrative from my experiences. In fact, if you were to go to any area of high deprivation and poverty in the UK and you'd be greeted with similar scenarios. Okay, enough about the setting. Move on to the characters. Adam and Eve are truly brilliant and how good to link it to the bibical references from the Garden of Eden. However in this case Eden is not all its cracked up to be. At no point did I feel that Richard Milward was trying to be smug with the characters - I really felt he was trying to portray what he would have known about children like that from his own area. It's a sad representation of life for some school children. The cover work is fabulous, well done those designers. Equally as big a well done to Richard Milward for writing this book at 19 years old. I can't praise this book enough for it's style, honesty, brutality and scope.
    • 2/5
      I'm afraid I didn't enjoy or like this book. I couldn't find anything sympathetic about the characters and the bleak nihilism didn't sit well with me.
    • 4/5
      So working class Northern life consists of McDonalds, cheap fags, underage sex, booze and drugs. Nothing we didn't already assume. Disappointing considering the reviews, though the endorsement from Irvine Welsh should have been a clue. Redeemed in part by the OCD character of Adam who is genuinely funny & likeable.