About the Author

Ben Brooks was born in 1992 and lives in Berlin. He is the author of several books, including Grow Up, Lolito, which won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2015, and the runaway international bestseller Stories for Boys Who Dare to be Different.

Reviews

The most reassuring thing about this book is that it's so good. How anyone can have an adolescence as deranged as Brooks's was and still produce work of this calibre is final proof that what your mother said was right: it's only a phase.
*Daily Mail*

Every parent should read this book
*Clover Stroud*

A must-read for those with teenage kids
*Candice Brathwaite*

The book to read
*The Times*