Beyond Kidding by Lynda Clark

Beyond Kidding

One little lie can have life-changing consequences.

When Robert (or Kidder, as he’s known to his best friend) decides to impress at a job interview by making up a son, he discovers that maintaining the lie is far harder than he thought – so he invents a story that his imaginary child has been kidnapped. After all, it’s not like they’re going to find the fake boy.

But a few weeks later, Kidder receives a call to collect his non-existent son from the police station, a boy who looks exactly like the picture he photoshopped. Afraid to come clean, Kidder takes the boy home. And that’s where the trouble starts…

Beyond Kidding is a darkly humorous, genre-bending work of sci-fi. Lynda Clark is a new talent to discover for lovers of Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Coupland and Black Mirror.

Paperback

Published: 31/10/2019

ISBN: 9781912054848

Length: 336pp

Price: £8.99

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‘This is a remarkable debut, written with great warmth and wit. By turns devastating and hilarious, Lynda Clark’s Beyond Kidding had me from the very start, and it didn’t let me go’ —Sarah Jackson, author of Pelt and winner of the Seamus Heaney Prize 2013

‘A dark and quirky debut – funny, sad, thought-provoking and unexpected’ —Emma D’Costa, Commonwealth Writers

‘I loved absolutely every moment of this book’ —Liz, Prospero Books

‘Unique, bizarre, hilarious, poignant and a surprisingly good read! This one stands on its own within a genre that could be more than sci-fi. Everything comes together to become this quite wonderful story’ —Gary Sharp, The Book Lover Cafe

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