“Saul Leslie has divined the deflating end point of Bataille’s unproductive expenditure in the abandoned shopping trolley, stuck in the mire halfway between damp valediction and the base matter of bureaucratic Albion. A sacred conspiracy of consumer ennui, scried in his mordant sweep round its British aisles.”
– Sophie Sleigh-Johnson, author of Code: Damp
“Full of revealing observations about metropolitan life in the early twenty-first century, it is written in exuberant, richly enjoyable prose.”
– Matthew Beaumont, author of Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London
“Lovely, clever, both incredibly silly at points and also deadly, heartbreakingly serious.”
– Sheila Liming, author of Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time
“Finally: the great supermarket novel. A wickedly sharp tale of work and life under modern capitalism that will resonate with anyone who has ever worked on the tills.”
– Dan Evans, author of A Nation of Shopkeepers
“Imagine Charles Bukowski rewritten by John Milton and James Joyce for a post-pop cultural age. This is exciting, fearsomely brilliant and witty writing — a stunning and engrossing fictional debut, a brilliant head-rush — and it never gives in.”
– Philip Hoare, author of William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love
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