A Boy's Guide to Track and Field

Wry, poignant and inventive - this is a story about a boy, and a young man, who feels lost in this uncertain world and is struggling to find his way.

Countless modern novels tackle the breakdown of previously equal relationships between men and women following the arrival of children, but few do it with the sparkle and perception of Broadbent

This stunning debut... is not to be missed... very funny, absorbing and moving, this comes highly recommended

Peppered with sharp observations... refreshingly original

An entertaining take on the mores of contemporary society

The writing is subtle, funny and refreshingly superior...Recommended for young urbanites

Sabrina Broadbent's debut novel, Descent, won the W.H. Smith Raw Talent Award and her third novel, You Don't Have To Be Good, was published in 2009 by Chatto &amp; Windus. She used to teach English at a comprehensive school in North London and now works with FILMCLUB, which works with teachers to set up and support free after-school film clubs in schools throughout the UK. She lives in London.

Lem Gulliver (25, maths teacher), can't seem to leave home. His mother (46, courtroom artist) and step-father (49, AA patrol man), make no secret of the fact that he's become a cuckoo in the nest but since his girlfriend left him for a dog trainer, Lem has returned to his natural state of emotional drift. He can't understand how the people around him manage the plot of a grown-up life. 
 
A Boy's Guide to Track and Field starts at Walthamstow and travels southbound towards Brixton; the reader is swept along with Lem in a review of the past which gradually accelerates into the present.

Sabrina Broadbent

Broadbent's writing is funny and spry, and her characters nicely unconventional

Compelling. Broadbent is a clever and subtle writer

Sometimes doing the right thing ins't an option. 
 
In her late forties, in a stalled marriage and emailed half to death at work, solid, dependable, sensible Bea notices that she is starting to disappear. One morning on her way to work she vanishes completely. 
 
Her husband is suspected of murder, high-flying sister Katherine starts to unravel and Katherine's teenage children, Laura and Adrian - brilliant, difficult, and wise - struggle to solve the mystery of their beloved aunt's disappearance. 
 
Touching and funny, You Don't have to be Good is a sharp and clever look at what happens when a woman reaches the point where being good is no longer an option.

You Don't Have to be Good

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Broadbent's writing is funny and spry, and her characters nicely unconventional

Compelling. Broadbent is a clever and subtle writer

Compelling and thought provoking

Broadbent's writing is funny and spry, and her characters nicely unconventional

Compelling. Broadbent is a clever and subtle writer

Compelling and thought provoking

Broadbent's writing is funny and spry, and her characters nicely unconventional

Compelling. Broadbent is a clever and subtle writer

Compelling and thought provoking

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