In the Rooms

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"A brilliantly funny debut novel about getting clean and coming clean..." "You meet everyone in the rooms nglish literary agent Patrick Miller came to New York dreaming of joining the big league, only to find himself selling celebrity dog books. But when he spots the legendary novelist Douglas Kelsey on the street and follows him into an AA meeting, a world of opportunity beckons. Patrick enters a den of sex addicts, junkies and pill-poppers, all rubbing shoulders with the reclusive Kelsey. Who knew that sobriety offered such networking possibilities? Or that the women would be so attractive? There s only one small problem. Patrick doesn t have a problem not with alcohol, nor with drugs, just with that little thing they call the truth. As everyone is beginning to find out Part Nick Hornby, part Jay McInerney, with a dash of vermouth, In the Rooms is a warm, sharply observed comedy about sex, lies and second chances."

"Tom Shone was both deputy literary editor and film critic of the Sunday Times, before becoming a writer at Talk magazine. He is the author of Blockbuster- How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Summer (Simon & Schuster). In the Rooms is his first novel. He lives in New York."

...entirely readable, amusing in parts and well written * Daily Mail * It is rare for an author to exhibit such bravery * The Independent on Sunday * [a] cutting comic debut novel * Sunday Times * Laugh-out-loud funny -- Toby Young