Mick Foley

Brilliant and disturbing... A novel of immense power and subtlety

Take JD Salinger, throw in a bit of Dostoevsky, sprinkle with Bret Easton Ellis, and you're getting there

Foley brilliantly charts the young Andy's emotional deprivation and the adolescent Andy's romantic confusion

Raw, funny and moving stuff. Drop your preconceptions on entry and enjoy a real book by a real writer

Antietam (Andy) Brown - named for the great-great-grandfather who died on that Civil War battleground - was ten years old when he killed his abusive foster father. Now, after seven years in reform school, he is free to make a new start. But he is immediately thrust into the violent and debased life of his real father (known as Tietam) - an oddly charismatic man who seems addicted to bodybuilding, beer-swilling and 'bareback riding'.      <br/>
<br/>
Swimming through a morass of crudity and violence, Andy is stunned to find himself pursued by the high school homecoming queen - a born-again Christian. Obsessed with the idea of offering his girlfriend a pure love and driven to find out whether he's descended from a monster or a hero, Andy searches for the truth in the dangerous currents of his father's past and present.

Tietam Brown

About us

About Us (Header 4)

Kate-Atkinson

James-Baldwin

Marian-Keyes

haruki-murakami-320×320-1

Richard-Osman

Malorie Blackman

Lisa-Jewell

Charlie-Mackesy

Authors (Header 3)

Children&#039;s

Company

Discover

Fiction

Non-fiction

Penguin Classics

Penguin Shop (Header 5)

Useful links

Work with us

prhuk-authors

Penguin Shop: 3 Clothbound Classics for £33

Mick Foley

Praise for Tietam Brown

Brilliant and disturbing... A novel of immense power and subtlety

Take JD Salinger, throw in a bit of Dostoevsky, sprinkle with Bret Easton Ellis, and you're getting there

Foley brilliantly charts the young Andy's emotional deprivation and the adolescent Andy's romantic confusion

Brilliant and disturbing... A novel of immense power and subtlety

Take JD Salinger, throw in a bit of Dostoevsky, sprinkle with Bret Easton Ellis, and you're getting there

Foley brilliantly charts the young Andy's emotional deprivation and the adolescent Andy's romantic confusion

Brilliant and disturbing... A novel of immense power and subtlety

Take JD Salinger, throw in a bit of Dostoevsky, sprinkle with Bret Easton Ellis, and you're getting there

Foley brilliantly charts the young Andy's emotional deprivation and the adolescent Andy's romantic confusion

Follow penguin

Follow ladybird

Follow puffin

Sign up to the Penguin newsletter