Submarine
By Joe dunthorne

Submarine is the wickedly funny first novel by Joe DunthorneNOW AN ACCLAIMED FILM BY RICHARD AYOADEMeet Oliver Tate, fifteen years old. Convinced that his father is depressed ('Depression comes in bouts. Like boxing. Dad is in the blue corner') and his mother is having an affair with her capoeira teacher, ('a hippy-looking twonk'), he embarks on a hilariously misguided campaign to bring the family back together. Meanwhile, he is also trying to lose his virginity - before he turns sixteeen - to his pyromaniac girlfriend Jordana. Will Oliver succeed in either aim? Submerge yourself inand Submarineand and find out . . .'Brilliant . . . laugh-out-loud enjoyable. The sharpest, funniest, rudest account of a troubled teenager's coming-of-age sinceand The Catcher in the Rye' Independent'A richly amusing tale of mock GCSEs, sex, death and challenging vocabulary . . . Excruciatingly funny incidents and cracking gags'and Time Out'Excellent . . . the wonderful, Day-Glo certainties of adolescence have rarely been so brilliantly laid out'and Independent on Sunday'Perfectly pitched . . . transplantsand The Catcher in the Ryeand to south Wales . . . Dunthorne can make you laugh like did during double physics on a wet Wednesday afternoon'and Observer'A brilliant first novel by a young man of ferocious comic talent'and The TimesJoe Dunthorne was born and brought up in Swansea. He is the author ofand Submarine, which has been translated into fifteen languages and made into an acclaimed film directed by Richard Ayoade, andand Wild Abandon, which won the 2012 Encore Award. His debut poetry pamphlet was published by Faber and Faber. He lives in London.