'Stu Hennigan is one of my favourite writers. His voice is unmistakable and always compelling. Keshed, in its presentation of class and fatherhood, displays verve, fearlessness and total commitment to its characters and their world. It's brutal and beautiful.' Wendy Erskine, author of The Benefactors
What a f*****g triumph. Heartbreaking, vicious and so brilliant. Heidi James, author of The Sound Mirror
Keshed is a novel of fierce power, with a voice that rips from the page. It's propelled by desperate yearnings: for feeling, for connection, for release from the tethers of addiction and trauma, of society and the self. It stares down hopelessness, and bursts with defiant desire. James Scudamore, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award
It's like reading a Molotov cocktail. Rose Ruane, Women's Prize-longlisted author of Birding
Profane, darkly funny, unflinching in its focus on the wreckage of ordinary lives: Henngian is a voice we need. Naomi Booth, author of raw content and Exit Management
Keshed is a beautiful, visceral, gut-punch of a novel. This heart-rending study of modern masculinity, fatherhood, class and the liminality of social mobility is a story of wastedeness: a wasted body, brain, talent, life and love. Original in both subject matter and form, Keshed is timely and urgent. Hennigan is one of the country's finest writers on the confluence of capitalism and class. He is also the master of sharp prose. I urge people to read this brilliant book. Angharad Hampshire, Walter Scott Prize-shortlisted author of The Mare
Keshed is an incredibly powerful book. Immersive, visceral and compelling. For long stretches of it I was right back in the world of my upbringing, the stink and the glory. Mark Bowles, Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author of All My Precious Madness
I want to use the words ‘gritty and brutal’ to describe this phenomenal work but ‘beautiful and intricate’ need to be alongside them to full do justice to this visceral textual landscape. It’s a book that both takes and gives. Like great art. Juno Roche, author of A Working Class Family Ages Badly
