A powerful piece of writing...A tragicomic lament for the generations of rejects and hopefuls who fetched up in the erstwhile "muddy pool" of Liverpool

Exhilarating...It pulses with sincere and bracing anger

The rawness and vitality that have been present in Griffiths' writing... make him more than able to present this material unflinchingly and powerfully. Red in tooth and claw, Wreckage makes bleak but compelling reading

One of Britain's most talented younger writers

Brilliantly paced, sexy and hilarious... An awesome bebut... I can't wait for his second novel

Fresh, funny and convincing

Angry, moving, urgent

One of my favourite books of the year...This is going to be huge...I loved it

An enjoyably bumptious coming of age novel

Tolerant, funny and real, [the narrator] ducks and dives hedonistically, lazily, gunning out x-ray observations about masculinity, models and "the magic of miscegenation" that would have had Oscar Wilde licking his lips

'Highly coloured, linguistically inventive...Evans has a powerful and often beguiling imagination'

'Sensual and poetic, as well as powerful and uncompromising...A mature, compelling and beautiful first novel'

'The writing is both mature and freshly perceptive, creating not only a warmly funny novel of a Neasden childhood - with its engaging minutiae of flapjacks and icepops, lip gloss and daisy hairclips - but a haunting account of the loss of innocence and mental disintegration.'