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LIKE SO TOTALLY by Paul Sayer     
ISBN: 978-1-904529-50-7
Paperback original, pp 360
Price: £10.99
Publication date: 5 May 2010 

'It’s the summer that I die. Like the beginning? God, don’t start...'
Thirteen year-old Jessica Lovely is drowning in a Scarborough
swimming pool. Her short life passes before her eyes. But she
survives unharmed, save for an image that remains with her
of some other looming demise. Haunted by this, she embarks
on a teenage odyssey of promiscuity and wild self-discovery, a
journey that leads not only to greater catastrophe, but also to
a vision of the future, and the love and joy that lie beyond the
follies of adolescence.

Paul Sayer is a former psychiatric nurse and the author of six
previous novels, including Th e Comforts of Madness, winner of
the 1988 Whitbread First Novel and Book of the Year awards, and
the Booker Prize long-listed Th e Absolution Game. His work has
been translated into ten languages.

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Reviews of Paul Sayer's earlier work:

The Comforts of Madness

New York Newsday – The Comforts of Madness is surely sad, but enthralling in its excellence.

The Times – Sayer’s extraordinary achievement is to have combined a deep imaginative empathy with a vigorously unsociological broadside on the treatment of the mentally ill, and to have done so quite without sentimentality.
Los Angeles Times – THE COMFORTS OF MADNESS compares to Camus’s The Stranger.

The Absolution Game
Evening Standard – The Absolution Game reaffirms Sayer’s talent as a storyteller and master craftsman.

The Storm Bringer
The Times – He writes with the effortless subtlety and confidence of an old master... Subtly, and without smugness, he leads us towards events that always appear inevitable and wholly predictable, only to change direction at the last moment and shatter our complacent illusions.

Daily Telegraph – Sayer is a master of both emotional and physical geography.

The God Child

The Times – Sayer is a subtle moralist with an eye for the stranger byways of vice and virtue and The God Child gives fresh evidence of his talent and seriousness.

Sunday Telegraph – A pulsating read, shot through with intelligence and feeling.

Men In Rage
Literary Review – Wise, rigorous and psychologically compelling... Men In Rage is an important novel for a society unable to cope with rage. Paul Sayer’s writing has all the strength and grace to delineate the dramatics inherent in this emotion.