Absent Therapist: Penguin Special

is a book of soundings, a jostle of voices that variously argue, remember, explain, justify, speculate and meander... Sons and lovers, wanderers, wonderers, stayers, leavers, readers and believers: 'The biggest surprise of all is frequently that things and people really are as they seem.' Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2014 is a book of soundings, a jostle of voices that variously argue, remember, explain, justify, speculate and meander... Sons and lovers, wanderers, wonderers, stayers, leavers, readers and believers: 'The biggest surprise of all is frequently that things and people really are as they seem.'
'The whole book is like someone deeply charismatic and charming daring you not to find them insane. It's wonderful.' Nicholas Lezard
'I was gripped and awed by. Will Eaves's, touching, addictive and unlike any other book.' Thomas Adès, is a miniature but infinite novel, and unlike anything. I've read before. It's just achingly good.' Luke Kennard