KELLY + VICTOR

An unusual love that begins a few days after the millennium and with dizzying speed is driven to the dramatic climax and the end. Two young children - two heroes who from the first pages the reader feels that he knows them - Victor and Kelly meet in a bar after New Year's 2000. Their lightning-fast love is told in the first person by Victor and then by Kelly in a language that preserves the mistakes and inconsistencies of spoken language. They are quickly driven to perversion and extremes, but deep down they are victims of a world where human needs have been replaced by consumerism. With a strong political stance and a stirring cry for human contact, Griffiths leads his heroes to sleaze, self-destruction and impasse. Kelly, although a very young girl, is tormented by uncontrollable outbursts of sexual violence. Her thoughts are a unique record in the field of literature of a female eroticism very different from the one usually attributed to female heroines. Deeply feminist, unconventional, desperate and fierce, this novel is guaranteed to surprise and satisfy readers who seek but also endure strong thrills. A little about the author: Niall Griffiths was born in Liverpool in 1966. He is a young up-and-coming author with 4 books already under his belt: Grits (2000), Sheepshagger (2001), Kelly & Victor (2002), and most recently Stump (2003). Grits has already been adapted into a TV movie, while his two most recent books Kelly & Victor and Stump are soon to be brought to the big screen. Awards: 2004 Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year Award 2004 Welsh Books Council Book of the Year