Peterdown

A book from the psychic fault lines of 21st Century Britain, Peterdown’s big ambitions never lose sight of the human and everyday. The result is something simultaneously down to earth and epic – Johny Pitts, author of AfropeanMadcap, hugely rich and entertaining * GQ *Few novels quite match David Annand’s debut … so enjoyable to read: the deft and humorous telling of people trying to muddle through modern life – Tom Ball * The Times *Entertaining, acute and remarkably prescient – Nicholas Clee * TLS *Peterdown is a state-of-the-nation work evincing a sweeping preoccupation with ideas of community, space and place … a timely book, clear in its concerns and vital in its focus. * Literary Review *A captivating parable about how we understand place… Annand’s narrative speaks volumes about how culture configures our relationship to physical space … Peterdown makes for engrossing reading – Sarah Birch * Hackney Citizen *David Annand is a great storyteller who has suddenly arrived in the front rank of contemporary novelists with a book that is witty, touching, loaded with drama and, most crucially, lays bare the cultural and class divisions that run through present-day British society. Along the way, from the Fall to the steak bake at Greggs to football culture, he understands the poetry of everyday life in all its infinite bittersweet detail – Andrew Hussey, author of Speaking EastAnnand’s class politics are razor sharp; Peterdown is What a Carve Up! for the post-crash era of gentrification and Iconic developments, skewering many of the bromides of contemporary politics and culture along the way – John Merrick * Tribune *

David Annand has worked as an editor at Conde Nast Traveller and GQ. He has written for the FT, TLS, Telegraph, Literary Review, the New Statesman and Time Out. Peterdown is his first book.

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