Things to Do in A Retirement Home Trailer Park ... when you're 29 and unemployed

A tour-de-force and eight years in the making, this is a powerful, superbly drawn and deeply moving portrait of a young man coming to terms with his dying father, and with his own life, as he takes care of the old man in his final months. When Nye’s father phones to wish him a happy birthday, and reveals he has been ‘certified for hospice’, Nye slumps down on the nearest doorstep in shock. Unemployment means that he is free to move into the trailer park where his father lives and assume the role of chief carer. Their daily schedule of pill counting and medical checks unfolds into an extraordinary world where the protagonist is a minotaur, his father a rhinoceros, social workers are sea turtles and mobile homes move atop gigantic elephants. An emotive, tender, well-drawn novel by Aneurin (Nye) Wright.