Big Nobody

Riotously funny, nostalgic and immensely touching. If this isn’t a hit I will eat my hat. – Pandora SykesBig Nobody is one of my favourite novels so far this year. … I love to see a woman in her sixties with a first novel, let alone one this good. – India KnightSo, so good - brilliantly funny and absolutely heartbreaking. I can’t think of anyone who has channelled the teenage voice as well since Sue Townsend’s Adrian Mole – India Knight * Sunday Times *It’s hard not to root for a heroine who is so touching, a mixture of resilience and hurt, bouncy self-esteem and its crushing opposite. … A debut that sparkles like Marc Bolan’s eye makeup. * Guardian *This original, compelling coming-of-age story is alternately heart-breaking and hilarious - I rooted for Connie from the start. * Daily Mail *A dark coming-of-age story steeped in teenage frustration and era-defining music. * Woman’s Own *With BIG NOBODY a big new voice has arrived in fiction. Chock with wit, whimsy and the poignancy of unprocessed pain, this book broke my heart one minute and had me really laughing the next. In Connie, with her resilience and fierce determination to live on her own terms, Alex Kadis has given us a protagonist who will stay with you for a very long time. – Xochitl GonzalezThis audacious debut novel reminds readers that humour might be the best way to talk about heartbreak. Big Nobody offers us both: it’s a hilarious tale of awkward (is there any other kind?) adolescence that is also a moving story of family dysfunction. Don’t worry: there’s trauma, but there’s triumph, too. – Rumaan Alam, author of LEAVE THE WORLD BEHINDBIG NOBODY is hands down the funniest, most original novel I’ve read in ages; it’s also a surprisingly moving story about what it means to strike out on your own in a hostile, bewildering world, told by one of the most memorable new narrators in contemporary fiction. Keep Alex Kadis on your radar - she’s a force to be reckoned with. I am totally, utterly, out-of-my-mind obsessed with this book. – Grant Ginder, author of THE PEOPLE WE HATE AT THE WEDDINGDelightfully original … both creatively daring and perfectly evocative of the melodramatic emotional shitshow that is adolescence. My Big Fat Greek Coming-of-Age Novel, narrated by one of the great teenage curmudgeons of recent literature * Kirkus *

Alex Kadis is half-British, half-Greek, and grew up in Leyton and Walthamstow, East London. She studied English Literature at Goldsmiths University before embarking on a music journalism career. She was Features Editor at Smash Hits in its heyday (RIP) and has also written for various newspapers and magazines, including Sunday Times Style and Q Magazine. She then went into artist management and now works as a consultant in the music industry. Alex suffers from delusions of grandeur and still believes she will, one day, headline Wembley Stadium.

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