In the Rooms
  • Published: 15 June 2010
  • ISBN: 9780099534068
  • Imprint: Windmill Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $22.99

In the Rooms

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20 Dec 2011
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15 Jun 2010
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A brilliantly funny debut novel about getting clean and coming clean...

You meet everyone in the rooms...

English literary agent Patrick Miller came to New York dreaming of joining the big league, only to find himself selling celebrity dog books.

But when he spots the legendary novelist Douglas Kelsey on the street and follows him into an AA meeting, a world of opportunity beckons. Patrick enters a den of sex addicts, junkies and pill-poppers, all rubbing shoulders with the reclusive Kelsey.

Who knew that sobriety offered such networking possibilities? Or that the women would be so attractive?

There's only one small problem. Patrick doesn't have a problem - not with alcohol, nor with drugs, just with that little thing they call the truth. As everyone is beginning to find out...

Part Nick Hornby, part Jay McInerney, with a dash of vermouth, In the Rooms is a warm, sharply observed comedy about sex, lies and second chances.
  • Published: 15 June 2010
  • ISBN: 9780099534068
  • Imprint: Windmill Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Tom Shone

Tom Shone was both deputy literary editor and film critic of the Sunday Times, before being poached by Tina Brown as a staff writer on Talk magazine. He is the author of Blockbuster: How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Summer (Simon & Schuster). In the Rooms is his first novel, publishedin the UK by Hutchinson in 2009, and in the US by St Martins Press in 2011. He is currently film critic of Intelligent Life, a contributer to The Guardian, Vogue, and New York, and teaches film history at NYU.

Praise for In the Rooms

...entirely readable, amusing in parts and well written

Daily Mail

It is rare for an author to exhibit such bravery

The Independent on Sunday

[a] cutting comic debut novel

Sunday Times

Laugh-out-loud funny

Toby Young