Disraeli Avenue

A novella from Caroline Smailes featuring characters from her critically acclaimed debut, In Search of Adam.

The houses on Disraeli Avenue all looked the same, the same shape, the same size but behind each coloured front door there was a story, a secret, a need. Bill Williams is lost, Aunty Maggie longs to be young and attractive, Crystal is searching to find out more about Adam. Tales of debt, infidelity, incest, love and loss all combine and weave into a mosaic of working class life.

Reviews

Praise for Caroline Smailes

‘Will Self and Caroline Smailes are arch-experimentalists’ OBSERVER

‘One of the most unusual and talented writers around .’ STUART EVERS, Netgalley

‘She experiments, she doesn't settle. She's a restless, questing spirit – always in search of the story that shocks her readers out of complacency. And she is – book after book – getting herself a reputation as a force to be reckoned with.’ STEPHEN MAY, author of Life! Death! Prizes!

About the author

Caroline Smailes was born in Newcastle in 1973. She moved to the North West to study English Literature at Liverpool University. A chance remark on a daytime chat show spurred her to enrol on an MA in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. Caroline graduated in 2007 with distinction and won the Michael Schmidt Prize for the best novel portfolio of the year. Her first novel, In Search of Adam, was published in 2007 and she is currently working on her third – a historical novel based on her family roots in Malta.

Caroline is currently an Associate Lecturer for the Open University and lives in the North West with her husband and three children.