Book description
A bar in Liverpool January 2nd 200:
VICTOR meets a girl. Some time later that night he is in her bed.
This, he thinks, is the best sex he's ever had.
KELLY meets a boy. Some time later that night he is in her bed.
This, she thinks, is the best sex she's ever had.
So the story of Kelly + Victor progresses, through two
mirror-image narratives: a story of the growth and spiralling
intensity of sexual obsession, traced to its inevitable, devastating
conclusion. Set against a backdrop of urban despair, spiritual absence
adn a world swamped with pornography, this is a novel about yearning
for union, for purity, and for magic and mystery ina world that denies
them all. And it is, above everything, a love story - or all that 21st
century Britain will allow of one.
Niall Griffiths was born in Liverpool in 1966 and now lives in Wales.
He has published six other novels:
Grits
,
Sheepshagge
r,
Stump
,
Wreckage
,
Runt
and
A Great Big Shining Star.
The film of
Kelly + Victor
was released to critical acclaim in 2012.
