Bed

Hilarious and tragic; a perfectly brilliant debut * * The Times * *
Staggering, inventive and heartbreakingly beautiful. * * Esquire * *
A story [about] families and the love that sustains and smothers. Bed is brilliantly imagined * * Daily Mail * *
Finally someone set a bestseller in my bedroom. And in yours... -- DBC Pierre
Number One Summer Read * * Grazia * *
David Whitehouse has taken what might be a gimmicky hook in a lesser writer's hands--a romance triangulating around a bedridden media spectacle, the world's most obese man--and turned it, through lapidary prose, into a soulful meditation on a fraternal love as singular as it is universal. * * Teddy Wayne, author of KAPITOIL * *
Brilliant and very expressive. Mal is an extremely vivid firework of a character. -- Greg Eden * * Waterstones.co.uk * *
The best new novel I've read in ages. * * Guardian * *