Up a Tree in the Park at Night with a Hedgehog
  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409075318
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224
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Up a Tree in the Park at Night with a Hedgehog

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1 Sep 2010
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7 Mar 2016
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A quirky, original and hysterically funny first novel involving philosophy, death, love, sex and hedgehogs...

Benton Kirby is in a spot of bother...

His life hasn't exactly gone to plan. This is hardly surprising, however, as he never really had one in the first place. Armed with a philosophy degree, a dead fiancé, a brother who drives Death around London in his black cab, and a girlfriend with a history of suicidal pets, Benton - ambitionless and emotionally disengaged - embarks, for no apparent reason, on an affair with a beautiful, sexually adventurous, Korean virgin.

Following a strange snowballing of even stranger events, he finds himself, at last, exactly not where he ever imagined he would be, up a tree at night in the park with a hedgehog...
  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409075318
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224
Categories:

About the author

Paul Robert Smith

P Robert Smith splits his time between inner city Sydney and the beautiful beaches of the Central Coast of Australia. Up a Tree in the Park At Night with a Hedgehog is his first novel.

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Praise for Up a Tree in the Park at Night with a Hedgehog

Page-turningly odd

Jasper Fforde

Smith's tone and turn of phrase is light and funny

Esquire

Moments in this book made me laugh out loud

London lite

The pretender to Mark Haddon's crown...a truly entertaining read

Aesthetica Magazine

It's totally fucking brilliant. I love it

Douglas Coupland

Smith's first novel is a comic masterpiece. I LAUGHED OUT LOUD, whilst cringing in guilty recognition

Matt Dunn

I think I've got it! Up a tree (funny). In the park (romantic). At night (sad). With a hedgehog (weird and wholly original). A funny, romantic, sad, wholly original novel. Buy it, read it, you won't regret it

Will Ferguson
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