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In the beginning…. Time was when students would stick a copy of Withnail & I into the VCR and match the lead characters drink for drink and drug for drug. It was an arduous task, but if anyone tried a similar wheeze with Richard Milward’s E, weed, Breezer, Smirnoff and speed-laced debut they’d be in hospital before all the main characters had been introduced. Set on a Middlesbrough council estate and dividing the narrative between a collection of shag-happy and sex-starved 15-year-olds (as well as, in a few moments of successfully executed abstraction, an unborn baby, a butterfly and a series of streetlamps), it’s wildchild Eve and shy, obsessive-compulsive Adam who take centre stage. Adam’s crazy about Eve but, as successive bites of the apples of knowledge prove, the course of young love never runs straight, particularly if you’re too busy throwing up to remember where you live. Milward’s excellent debut finds poetry in his characters’ lives without romanticising their situation. Apples by Richard Milward, out now published by Faber.
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