Sunday Daffodil and Other Happy Endings

The quirky, clever, charming second novel from the writer of Up A Tree in the Park at Night with a Hedgehog.

The literary version of a Coen brothers film crossed with Catcher in the Rye. It's full of dry wit, glaring irony, and exaggerated language, and packed with eclectic characters, emblematic of a world gone to hell

The second novel from P. Robert Smith has as many twists and turns as you’d expect from the man who brought us Up A Tree At Night With A Hedgehog... It's a fun read

A collage of inexplainable happenings and strange characters... Dream-like... Quirky

[A] gloriously inventive follow-up to Up A Tree in the Park At Night with a Hedgehog...peopled with charming, quirky characters all in search of their own happy endings

P Robert Smith splits his time between inner city Sydney and the beautiful beaches of the Central Coast of Australia. His first novel, Up a Tree in the Park At Night with a Hedgehog was published by Vintage in 2009.

Fielding Montanna might be dead, but doesn't know it. Sunday Daffodil wants to kill herself, but won't die. Louie Louie has the hots for Fielding's once beautiful mother, and the mysterious Moriarty hasn't slept a wink in twenty three years. Manhattan, meanwhile, is slowly sinking in a sea of sludge. 
 
Obviously it was always going to have a happy ending.

Paul Robert Smith

It's totally fucking brilliant. I love it

Smith's first novel is a comic masterpiece. I LAUGHED OUT LOUD, whilst cringing in guilty recognition

I think I've got it! Up a tree (funny). In the park (romantic). At night (sad). With a hedgehog (weird and wholly original). A funny, romantic, sad, wholly original novel. Buy it, read it, you won't regret it

Smith's tone and turn of phrase is light and funny

Moments in this book made me laugh out loud

The pretender to Mark Haddon's crown...a truly entertaining read

Benton Kirby is in a spot of bother... 
 
His life hasn't exactly gone to plan. This is hardly surprising, however, as he never really had one in the first place. Armed with a philosophy degree, a dead fiancé, a brother who drives Death around London in his black cab, and a girlfriend with a history of suicidal pets, Benton - ambitionless and emotionally disengaged - embarks, for no apparent reason, on an affair with a beautiful, sexually adventurous, Korean virgin. 
 
Following a strange snowballing of even stranger events, he finds himself, at last, exactly not where he ever imagined he would be, up a tree at night in the park with a hedgehog...

Paul Robert Smith

Praise for Up a Tree in the Park at Night with a Hedgehog

It's totally fucking brilliant. I love it

Smith's first novel is a comic masterpiece. I LAUGHED OUT LOUD, whilst cringing in guilty recognition

I think I've got it! Up a tree (funny). In the park (romantic). At night (sad). With a hedgehog (weird and wholly original). A funny, romantic, sad, wholly original novel. Buy it, read it, you won't regret it

It's totally fucking brilliant. I love it

Smith's first novel is a comic masterpiece. I LAUGHED OUT LOUD, whilst cringing in guilty recognition

I think I've got it! Up a tree (funny). In the park (romantic). At night (sad). With a hedgehog (weird and wholly original). A funny, romantic, sad, wholly original novel. Buy it, read it, you won't regret it

It's totally fucking brilliant. I love it

Smith's first novel is a comic masterpiece. I LAUGHED OUT LOUD, whilst cringing in guilty recognition

I think I've got it! Up a tree (funny). In the park (romantic). At night (sad). With a hedgehog (weird and wholly original). A funny, romantic, sad, wholly original novel. Buy it, read it, you won't regret it

Books by Paul Robert Smith

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