Original Sins

Electric…artfully structured…with novelistic verve… Hill is a blazing talent – Anthony Cummins * Observer *
His remarkable, funny, arrestingly well-written memoir brings to mind Edward St Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose novels, but is also entirely, exhilaratingly its own thing * The Times *
A beautifully controlled tale of a life spiralling out of control…Original Sins is one of the best books I’ve read this year, full of vivacity and honesty…To carve such an entertaining and beautifully paced story from such depths of misery suggests a writer of immense gifts – Johanna Thomas-Corr * Sunday Times *
This book is brilliant. The writing shimmers off the page – Kathryn Hughes * Guardian *
[Hill] deploys dark wit and needle-sharp insight to describe how he swapped a love of Jesus for a love of class-A drugs… devastatingly good… I was blown away * Daily Telegraph *
Ignore, for a moment, the unignorable facts of Matt Rowland Hill’s life. Ultimately it’s the novelistic virtues of vivid scene-making, fully realised characterisation and psychological subtlety that make Original Sins such an extraordinary book – Geoff Dyer
really very good…Hill has a light descriptive touch, but when he aims at poetry, he hits it... Hill’s command of tone - his ability to glide beautifully between comedy and horror - has made us trust him happily – Kevin Power * Literary Review *
A stunningly well-written, funny, heartrending and utterly gripping memoir about learning how to live with who we are. Read it. Read it now – Nathan Filer, author of The Shock of the Fall
A wildly original and gripping debut, told with humour and compassion, about what it means to survive – Christie Watson, author of The Language of Kindness
What a frightening and funny book, full of shocking, memorable scenes. I’m glad Matt Rowland Hill lived to tell the tale – Adam Foulds, author of Dream Sequence

Matt Rowland Hill was born in 1984 in Pontypridd, south Wales, and grew up in Wales and England. He now lives in London, and Original Sins is his first book.

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