Richard Milward
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Listen to Richard Milward reading his debut novel Apples, a coming-of-age story about Adam, a shy Beatles obsessive with OCD who is desperately in love with Eve, the pill-crunching, Bacardi Breezer-guzzling school beauty.
The 22-year-old from Middlesborough wrote one half of the book while in art college and the other on the dole; "In a way, I had a sort of double life mirroring Adam and Eve's," Milward says, "except I don't have to shut things all the time, and I've never been caught wanking in my attic."
Apples
is published by Faber in April.