What I Did

This is family life today at its most believable: warm and messy bored and raging....I LOVED IT.<br />--Emma Donoghue author of the <em>New York Times</em> bestseller <em>Room</em><br /> <br /><em>What I Did</em> by Christopher Wakling is a truly astonishing novel--the chronicle of a family crisis that is equal parts hilarity poignancy and horror told in the singular voice of a most precocious youngster. <em>Room</em> meets <em>The Slap</em> meets <em>The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time</em> Wakling's tour de force concerns one rash act that pitches a six-year-old boy and his hapless parents into the center of a social services maelstrom. <em>What I Did</em> is contemporary fiction at its most enthrallingly original--poignant powerful and extremely funny--a miraculous work that prompted London's <em>Daily Mail</em> to declare it the novel that should have won the Booker prize.<br />