<b>Age is just a number…<br><br><i>Lolito</i> is an unconventional love story about a fifteen-year-old boy who finds solace in the arms of a middle-aged woman on the Internet.</b><br><br>Fifteen-year-old Etgar Allison is spending spring break alone in an empty house, when he inadvertently learns that his girlfriend has cheated on him with another boy. Heartbroken and lonely, without parental supervision, he turns to alcohol. Unable to cope with his grief, he looks to the Internet for comfort and lands in an adult chatroom. There he meets Macy, a bored but attractive housewife; flirtatious IMs escalate into cybersex chats and soon Etgar is raiding his savings account for a romantic rendezvous in London. . . What could possibly go wrong? <br><br>Ben Brooks’s <i>Lolito</i> is an uncompromising look at the turbulent emotional life of teenage boys, a funny and poignant story that injects raw honesty—and even a little tenderness—into its portrait of a taboo relationship.<br><br>“Lolito <i>is the funniest, most horrible book I've read in years. I was blown away.”<br>—Nick Cave <br><br>“I love Ben Brooks. And </i>Lolito <i>is really something else. A twisted age-gap love story that is deadpan and grubby and strangely poetic and funny and wrong and also very right.”<br>—Matt Haig, author of </i>The Humans <br><br><i>“Brooks is a master of this art.” <br>—</i>The Times <br><br><i>“Both warm and uncompromising, </i>Lolito <i>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.”<br>—</i>The Guardian <br><br><i>“This is a totally convincing portrait of being a wayward teenager now, that only a teenager could have written.”<br>—</i>Dazed &amp; Confused <br><br><i>“Funny, witty and addictive, </i>Lolito <i>is a quirky and disturbing ball of energy that will consume readers until they have turned the last page. Brooks has created the most authentic teenage voice of the twenty-first century.”<br>—</i>List <br><br>“Lolito <i>manages to be hilarious, thought-provoking, disturbing and ridiculous all at once and again proves that young Brooks is one of the UK’s most promising young writers right now—a possible Irvine Welsh of his generation.”<br>—</i>Worcester News