“A dark and beguiling meditation on the weight of being…so fresh it practically pings with energy…The Bird Room is seamlessly woven into a perfectly formed whole that fizzes with deadpan wit and cutting one-liners.” —The Independent An audacious and self-assured debut novel The Bird Room by Chris Killen is sometimes darkly comic sometimes painfully dramatic and always entirely engaging. Reminiscent of other up-and-coming authors such as Tao Lin Richard Milward and Toby Litt and with a spare and efficient style that belies the intricacies of the novel’s double narrative The Bird Room is a dark edgy tale of sex love and obsession.