Feeding Time
By Adam Biles
3.5/5
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Chosen by The Observer as a Fiction Pick for 2016 and described as a ‘scintillating novel of ideas’, Feeding Time is a debut like no other: a blast of rage against the dying of the light.
Dot is losing the will to live. Tristan is sick of emptying bedpans. Cornish spends entire days barricaded in his office. And Ruggles... well. Ruggles is damn well going to escape those Nazi villains and get back to active duty.
The mix is all the more combustible since Dot, Tristan, Cornish and Ruggles are all under the same roof – that of a rapidly declining old people’s home called Green Oaks. There’s going to be an explosion. It’s going to be messy. And nobody knows who will pick up the pieces.
Adam Biles
Adam Biles is an English writer and translator based in Paris. He is the literary director at Shakespeare and Company, a renowned Parisian bookshop. His debut novel Feeding Time was a book of the year for the Observer, the Irish Times and the Millions.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5In a story of life in an old folks home we might expect sentimentality and reminiscence. Well, reminiscence of a sort we do get but not a whiff of sentimentality. Green Oaks is an old folks home like none other. An institution in which drug taking reaches 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' proportions, which plays host to scenes of bondage pornography, contains scenes worthy of Texas Chain Saw Massacre, has elements of the surreal and supernatural and whose story is told in part in comic book style, Viz being the inspiration rather than the Beano. I suspect that a good number of readers here are of an age where life in an older people's setting is either everyday or one which is regularly in our thoughts. The warning after reading Mr Biles' account of the adventures of the residents and staff of Green Oaks is to read the brochures very carefully