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A major fiction debut from Fourth Estate. Utterly Monkey is a funny, energetic, wonderfully uplifting novel about where we're from and where we'd like to get to! You leave home. And then home follows. Danny Williams is a young lawyer. He didn't mean to be a lawyer, but somehow he is - and for up to eighteen hours a day. He's well-paid, home-owning and 27, but also over-worked, lonely and frequently stoned. Was this the plan? The plan was to leave the troubles of a small town in Northern Ireland for the big city in England, but it turns out Londoners have troubles of their own. His colleague Albert spends too much time deciding which ergonomic mouse to use; his boss appears not to be human; and though the trainee on the ninth floor is beautiful, Danny works on the tenth. Then one evening an old school friend pitches up into his shiny new life. On the run from a Loyalist militia, Geordie brings everything that Danny'd thought he'd left behind and dumps it on his doorstep. Taking place over an intense five-day period - set in London and the fictional town of Ballyglass - the novel looks at who and what we really owe loyalty to: our lovers, our friends, our country, ourselves? And what happens to your soul in an office? And why do jellybeans cost so much in posh hotels? Utterly Monkey is a wonderfully touching, hilarious and ultimately redemptive novel about aspirations, belonging, the epiphanies of daily life and, best of all, getting the girl.

About the Author :
Nick Laird was born in 1975 in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, and until recently worked as a lawyer in London. His poems, essays and reviews have been published in various anthologies and journals including the Times Literary Supplement, and the London Review of Books. Laird's first poetry collection, To a Fault, is published by Faber and Faber.

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'Envy is a one of the Seven Deadly Sins, the one I've been guilty of since reading Nick Laird's 'Utterly Monkey.' This is more than a novel. It's an adventure into love and politics and yes yes, the law. What I like about it first, is its substantiality. An awkward word, but you know what I mean. Second, I like the way it moves. Nick Laird's writing is deft, good-humoured and absorbing. You'll finish the book in a day or two.' Frank McCourt 'Utterly Moneky is the real thing; a novel rich in both achievement and promise, by a writer who can actually write.' Jane Shilling, The Times


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780007197484
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publisher Imprint: Fourth Estate Ltd
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 352
  • Weight: 377 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0007197489
  • Publisher Date: 03 May 2005
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Width: 135 mm


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