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Kevin Brooks


Born
in Exeter, Devon, England, The United Kingdom
March 30, 1959

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J. D. Salinger


Kevin Brooks was born in 1959 and grew up in Exeter, Devon, England. He studied Psychology and Philosophy at Birmingham, Aston University in 1980 and Cultural Studies in London in 1983. Kevin Brooks has been in a variety of jobs including: musician, gasoline station attendant, crematorium handyman, civil service clerk, hot dog vendor at the London Zoo, post office clerk, and railway ticket office clerk.

Kevin Brooks's writing career started with the publication of Martyn Pig in 2002 through The Chicken House which won the Branford Boase Award 2003 and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. He also wrote Lucas (2002) which was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and Booktrust Teenage Prize in 2003 also winning the North Eas
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Average rating: 3.76 · 53,406 ratings · 5,946 reviews · 68 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Bunker Diary

3.80 avg rating — 12,940 ratings — published 2013 — 48 editions
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Candy

3.86 avg rating — 10,412 ratings — published 2005 — 30 editions
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Lucas

3.98 avg rating — 6,169 ratings — published 2003 — 48 editions
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iBoy

3.60 avg rating — 5,013 ratings — published 2010 — 36 editions
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The Road of the Dead

3.77 avg rating — 2,979 ratings — published 2006 — 30 editions
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Black Rabbit Summer

3.86 avg rating — 2,913 ratings — published 2008 — 26 editions
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Martyn Pig

3.54 avg rating — 3,156 ratings — published 2002 — 41 editions
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Being

3.63 avg rating — 2,943 ratings — published 2007 — 26 editions
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Kissing the Rain

3.31 avg rating — 1,564 ratings — published 2004 — 26 editions
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Naked

4.03 avg rating — 800 ratings — published 2011 — 17 editions
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“It’s always hard to lose somebody. It leaves a hole in you heart that never grows back. ”
Kevin Brooks, Lucas

“Because some things are never meant to be anything more than a moment. And that was one of them.”
Kevin Brooks, Lucas

“Getting over it doesn't mean forgetting it, it just means reducing the pain to a tolerable level, a level that doesn't destroy you. I know that right now the idea of getting over it is unimaginable. It's impossible, inconceivable, unthinkable. You don't want to get over it. Why should you? It's all you've got. You don't want kind words, you don't care what other people think or say, you don't want to know how they felt when they lost someone, They're no you, are there! They can't feel what you feel. The only thing you want is the things you can't have. It's gone. Never coming back. No one know how that feels. No one know what it's like to reach out and touch someone who isn't there and will never be there again. No one knows the unifiable emptiness. No one but you. You and me, love. We don't want anything. We want to die, but life won't let us. We're all it's got.”
Kevin Brooks, Lucas

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