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If You Liked School You’ll Love Work

By Irvine Welsh. Brilliant story collection
Reviewed by Kate Saunders
The Times
Reviewed by Kate Saunders
The Times

Irvine Welsh is a terrific mimic, who loves to experiment with different voices. This collection of stories is a chorus of voices – rude, rough, discordant, filthy and often very, very funny. It’s a pleasure to watch him larking about with the language. The title story is told by Mickey, a cockney wideboy who runs a pub in the Canaries. His life is pretty well sorted, until his former wife lumbers him with their 13-year-old daughter. Through no fault of his own, Mickey is mixed up with the local underworld, and the stuff hits the fan when the girl disappears. Brilliant.

IF YOU LIKED SCHOOL YOU’LL LOVE WORK by Irvine Welsh

Jonathan Cape, £11.99

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