Apocalypse for Beginners

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I loved this sharp, funny and wacky romcom... I also predict that the last line of the book will end up on tattoos and T-shirts everywhere. * Daily Mail * An eccentric, ebullient romantic comedy about deep friendship and eternal love * The Times * Dickner tells his off-kilter romcom with a thoughtful clarity that makes it very appealing. Lovers of imaginative randomness will find this a book after their own hearts * Metro * This slickly composed novel... gleams with on-trend observation and doomsday cynicism. * Independent * Blessed with a sense of fun and period. * Sunday Herald * A quirky and post-modern rom-com. * Big Issue * Mildly dysfunctional indie types have a literary romcom to call their own in this sweet, slightly self-conscious follow-up to Nikolski... Dickner assembles some ostensibly ill-assorted ingredients into a pleasingly idiosyncratic narrative... Dickner tells his off-kilter romcom with a thoughtful clarity that makes it very appealing. Lovers of imaginative randomness will find this a book after their own hearts. -- Tina Jackson * Metro * Lazer Lederhendler's rendering is remarkably even, and several of the novel's issues run deeper than mere sentence-level concerns. -- Sam Byers * TLS *