What I Did (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780062121691)

"This is family life today at its most believable: warm and messy, bored and raging....I LOVED IT."
--Emma Donoghue, author of the New York Times bestseller Room

What I Did by Christopher Wakling is a truly astonishing novel--the chronicle of a family crisis that is equal parts hilarity, poignancy, and horror, told in the singular voice of a most precocious youngster. Room meets The Slap meets The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Wakling's tour de force concerns one rash act that pitches a six-year-old boy and his hapless parents into the center of a social services maelstrom. What I Did is contemporary fiction at its most enthrallingly original--poignant, powerful, and extremely funny--a miraculous work that prompted London's Daily Mail to declare it "the novel that should have won the Booker prize."


Author: Christopher Wakling
ISBN-10: 0062121693
ISBN-13: 9780062121691
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Language: English
Published: 07/17/2012
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.44w x 0.67d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/16/2012 pg. 36
Booklist 06/01/2012 pg. 39