Under a Larkin Lens

'A blast in a good way.' * * * * * 'Filled with tension and dark humour.' * * * * * 'Very brutal but very funny!' * * * * *

A broken family in broken Britain: greed, murder, vengeance, madness. You think you know what it is to be British? Think again...

How do you survive a narcissistic mother? And what if the answer is, you don't!

Woe, Little Woe to her beloved father, is identified as a bone marrow donor match for a stranger's son. Nick swiftly becomes a close friend and Woe shares stories of the spite and hate the family have endured under the singular focus of its dominating matriarch.

Woe's brothers have also suffered under the relentlessness of their mother's controlling behaviour, both finding it difficult to relate to each other and the world in general. Neither is able to help in times of trouble, but one has been shaped not only in his mother's image but magnified a thousandfold.

When Little Woe loses her precious daddy in the most devastating of circumstances, her world crumbles. Thrust into a state of madness that drives a singular obsession to be united with her father, can Nick find a way to repay the gift of life?