Publication Date: 14/02/2019 ISBN: 9781910422441 Category:

LEONARD AND HUNGRY PAUL

Ronan Hession

Publisher: Bluemoose Books Ltd
Publication Date: 14/02/2019 ISBN: 9781910422441 Category:
Paperback / Softback

£9.99

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Don’t read the blub; just read the first page.
Leonard and Hungry Paul are both in their mid-thirties. Leonard still lives in his mother’s house, years after she passed away, and Paul still lives with his parents. Neither of them have ever quite felt like they’ve found their place in the world. But Paul’s younger sister is getting married and leaving home, and Leonard, for the first time in his life, realises that he’s falling in love with someone.
This book is a quiet marvel. It swept me off my feet completely. I had to text my colleagues about how good it was at half ten at night. I couldn’t read it in my room on my own but had to go and sit in the living room and read snippets out to my flatmate because they just begged to be shared. This is the humble, understated king of character fiction. A celebration of the ordinary, a revelation in the wonder of the everyday, a quirky, lovely ride and the perfect choice when you need your faith in humanity restored. A gin and tonic of a book.
My copy is now falling apart at the seams because of how often I return to it. Nearly five years on, I have yet to find anything so subtly layered and so brilliantly funny as this. A whole lifetime lies between the lines on the page.

Description

LEONARD AND HUNGRY PAUL is the story of two friends who ordinarily would remain uncelebrated. It finds a value and specialness in them that is not immediately apparent and prompts the idea that maybe we could learn from the people that we overlook in life. Leonard and Hungry Paul change the world differently to the rest of us: we try and change it by effort and force; they change it by discovering the small things they can do well and offering them to others.

Publisher Review

Chosen for BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB – March 2019

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