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Age is just a number...

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A JERWOOD FICTION UNCOVERED PRIZE 2014 WINNER

She´s online.
´I booked a hotel,´ I say. ´Near Marble Arch.´
´That sounds great, hon. I can´t wait to see you.´
´Yeah. Me too.´
´I´m vaguely nervous.´
´Don´t be.´
Do be. I´m a child.

Lolito is a love story about a fifteen year-old boy who meets a middle-aged woman on the internet.

When his long-term girlfriend and first love Alice, betrays him at a house party, Etgar goes looking for cyber solace in the arms of Macy, a stunning but bored housewife he meets online. What could possibly go wrong . . . ?

Hilarious, fearless and utterly outrageous, Lolito is a truly twenty-first century love story.

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My God, Brooks is a frightening young talent. In Lolito, he creates a multi-coloured, grubby little world that I´d really hate to read about if I was a parent. Magnetising, funny and disturbing, his prose is infectious and highly addictive. I loved it TIM KEY

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Ben Brooks was born in 1992 and lives in Gloucestershire. He is also the author of five other books Grow Up, Fences, An Island of Fifty, The Kasahara School of Nihilism, and Upward Coast & Sadie. Brooks´ work has been longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, nominated for a Pushcart Prize and published in the Dzanc Best of the Web anthology. Lolito was a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize-winner in 2014.

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