Kelly + Victor

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A bar in Liverpool, January 2nd 2000: Victor meets a girl. Some time later that night he is in her bed. This, he thinks, is the best sex he's ever had. Kelly meets a boy. Some time later that night he is in her bed. This, she thinks, is the best sex she's ever had. So the story of Kelly + Victor progresses, through two mirror-image narratives: a story of the growth and spiralling intensity of a sexual obsession, traced to its inevitable, devastating conclusion. Set against a backdrop of urban despair, spiritual absence and a world swamped with pornography, this is a novel about yearning for union, for purity, and for magic and mystery in a world that denies them all. And it is, above everything, a love story - or all that 21st-century Britain will allow of one.

Niall Griffiths was born in Liverpool in 1966 and now lives in Wales. He has published six other novels- Grits, Sheepshagger, Stump, Wreckage, Runt and A Great Big Shining Star. The film of Kelly + Victor was released to critical acclaim in 2012.

The range of Griffiths's achievement is as exhilarating as the reach of his ambition * Guardian * Kelly + Victor is a book breathing at the limits of experience, its protagonists martyrs to feeling in a world gone numb * Independent * With Kelly + Victor Griffiths has completed his transition into a literary voice for the 21st century * The Scotsman *