'Full of dark, deadpan humour, Brat is a raucous story of the messy, messed-up business of living, dying and having a family. ' Financial Times 'A moving coming-of-age family story' Observer   'Iconic', Radio 1I was in the waiting room. Then I was in the examinationroom.  Gabriel's skin is falling off.  His dad is dead.  He owes his editor a novel.  His girlfriend won't answer his calls.  Tasked by his horribly well-adjusted brother with clearing out the family home for sale, Gabriel's sanity quickly begins to unravel. His parents' old manuscripts appear to change each time he reads them. A bizarre home video hints at long-buried secrets. And there's a hideous man in the garden. Disquieting and hilarious, taut yet lyrical, blisteringly-paced but formally inventive,  Brat is a mediation on grief, art and love that will leave you altered, breathless and desperate for more.   From a stunningly original new talent, this is a debut novel unlike anything you have read before.  'This original, clever story is brilliant on grief, madness and creativity. It's beautifully written, hilarious and heart-breaking. I raced through it. ' Daily Mail'Gabriel Smith has written a truly unique and surprising book. He is the rarest thing: a distinctive stylist on the line and structure level.  Brat is so strange and so funny. I laughed a lot while reading. ' Rachel Connolly, author of Lazy City'Messy with glitched realities and body horror,  Brat breathes the same thrillingly claustrophobic air as Inland Empire and Ubik. It's a skin-shedding ouroboros of grief and laughter, and the most brain-melting British debut I've read in ages. ' Ed Park, author of Same Bed Different Dreams 'Gabriel Smith's prose is like if Joan Didion and Shirley Jackson took Xanax and used the internet.  Brat is a sharp, eerie, confident debut about grief, memory, art, and so much more. Smith is a major new talent. ' Jordan Castro, author of The Novelist 'Gabriel Smith's jauntily creepy and hilarious tale of a grief-stalked scapegrace's sloughing-off and regeneration of selves in the filial murk of a moldering homestead is a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man for a new, quaking generation.  Brat will unnerve and seduce you. ' Garielle Lutz, author of Worsted