Blood Relatives by Stevan Alcock

Rick is a delivery boy for Corona soft drinks, traversing 1970’s Leeds to dispense ginger beer and dandelion and burdock to the public, a line of work which brings him into contact not only with the city’s humdrum housewives and sad senior citizens, but also with a pair of more marginalised groups, both of which shape this bustling, picaresque coming-of-age debut: prostitutes and homosexuals.

I reviewed Blood Relatives, Stevan Alcock’s debut novel, for the Guardian. You can read the full review here.