Submarine

Submarine is the wickedly funny first novel by Joe Dunthorne NOW AN ACCLAIMED FILM BY RICHARD AYOADE Meet Oliver Tate, fifteen years old. Convinced that his father is depressed (''Depression comes in bouts. Like boxing. Dad is in the blue corner'') and his mother is having an affair with her capoeira teacher, (''a hippy-looking twonk''), he embarks on a hilariously misguided campaign to bring the family back together. Meanwhile, he is also trying to lose his virginity - before he turns sixteeen - to his pyromaniac girlfriend Jordana. Will Oliver succeed in either aim? Submerge yourself in Submarine and find out . . . ''Brilliant . . . laugh-out-loud enjoyable. The sharpest, funniest, rudest account of a troubled teenager''s coming-of-age since The Catcher in the Rye'' Independent ''A richly amusing tale of mock GCSEs, sex, death and challenging vocabulary . . . Excruciatingly funny incidents and cracking gags'' Time