Bonkas - Softcover

Jaques, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798300955434

Publisher: Independently published, 2024

Synopsis

Patrick Brady is the sanest man in the building. He'll tell you so himself.

At fifty-five he has lost his wife, his business and his home. He's now at Treetops — a supported housing scheme in South Wales where the fire doors slam all night and the man in the room above runs a bath at one in the morning.

Around him: a nineteen-year-old who has been in the care system since he was six. A woman whose songs made somebody else famous. An ex-soldier counting out his Valium. A dealer with a diagnosis he invented when he was thirteen. And a health-and-safety officer who wants everything tickety-boo.

Patrick watches them all. He notices everything. He is the reliable one.

Then people start dying.

Bonkas is a darkly funny, uncomfortably honest novel about grief, institutional failure, and the stories people tell to keep themselves intact — narrated by a man who may be the last person in the building you should trust.

For readers who like unreliable narrators, gallows humour, and gritty British fiction that finds real tenderness in the places most novels never look.

Read it once for the story. Read it again for the truth.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798300955434
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 318