About to Fall Apart (Ebook)

Poignant and tender, About to Fall Apart is a novel that pulses with compassion for its characters and brio in its prose.

A beautiful, utterly moving novel. Compassionate, quietly profound and shot through with dignity and humanity

A quietly powerful and emotionally charged novel that explores the fragile threads binding family, identity and memory. Written in a lyrical, almost poetic prose style, it captures the inner unravelling of its central character with striking intimacy . . . a tender, reflective piece that moves with real emotional weight

Lushly written and formally audacious, About to Fall Apart is a moving portrait of a man in middle age still searching for his place in the world. The narrative skilfully traverses themes of parenthood, race, identity, loneliness and ambition, all the while defamiliarising the everyday with linguistic verve.

With a poet's ear for rhythm, Hickson-Lovence has produced a propulsive narrative that carries the reader at startling speed through a turbulent journey of love, loss, and thwarted ambition.

Spare and elegant, About to Fall Apart is a bold and essential novel about the complexity of family, history, and our reckoning with these things. It’s sharp and propulsive and doesn’t let you go, even after you’ve finished.