Age is just a number...

A JERWOOD FICTION UNCOVERED PRIZE 2014 WINNER

She's online.
'I booked a hotel,' I say. 'Near Marble Arch.'
'That sounds great, hon. I can't wait to see you.'
'Yeah. Me too.'
'I'm vaguely nervous.'
'Don't be.'
Do be. I'm a child.

Lolito is a love story about a fifteen year-old boy who meets a middle-aged woman on the internet.

When his long-term girlfriend and first love Alice, betrays him at a house party, Etgar goes looking for cyber solace in the arms of Macy, a stunning but bored housewife he meets online. What could possibly go wrong . . . ?

Hilarious, fearless and utterly outrageous, Lolito is a truly twenty-first century love story.

"This is a totally convincing portrait of being a wayward teenager now, that only a teenager could have written" - * Dazed & Confused *

"Funny, witty and addictive, Lolito is a quirky and disturbing ball of energy that will consume readers until they have turned the last page" - * The List *

"Both warm and uncompromising, Lolito will be as entertaining for young adults as it is educational for older readers. And if some aspects of the world Brooks inhabits seem alarming, I can't think of a writer I would rather have as my guide" - * Guardian *

"Ben Brooks made me think that I'm glad I was fifteen in 1974 rather than now. I'm not actually that crazy about being fifty-four right now" - * The Truth About Lies *

"Brooks is a master of this art" - * The Times *