Ben Brooks 
Grow Up 

DOING DRUGS, DOING SEX, DOING LIFEWho says youth is wasted on the young?Jasper wants to get on in the world, but life is distracting. He’s got his A-levels to contend with, his mother pushing him to overachieve, weekly visits to his psychologist, come-downs, You Tube suicides and pregnant one-night-stands. And then there”s his step-dad – the murderer.Hilarious and heartbreaking by turns, GROW UP is the ultimate twenty-first-century coming of age novel. Funny, smart and twisted, it is the story of one young man transformed and paints an unashamed and true portrait of the pills and thrills and bellyaches of growing up today.