Lolito - Ben Brooks (Paperback) 01-08-2013 Winner of Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize 2014 (UK) and Somerset Maugham Award 2015 (UK).

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.