Set over a period of two weeks, Anonymous follows the exploits of Joe and his friends as they indulge in England’s binge-drinking culture. His appetite for a good time is often hindered by his best mate Gav, who has a tendency to land them in trouble at the drop of a hat. Meanwhile, brothers Rich and Max are on holiday in Los Angeles. There, they learn that while a new place will always bring surprises, some things never change and the here and now is never too far from the past.
Richie Andrews is a twenty-something year old factory worker from Nottingham. Uninspired by his tedious job and the increasingly vacuous generation surrounding him, he has taken to the written word as a form of expression.
'Anonymous' is a real game-changer in modern literature that brilliantly defies categorization.
This fast moving, gritty tale dives headlong in to underbelly of the binge drinking culture and follows the exploits of a group of hedonists, who both exploit the culture and whose lives wholeheartedly revolve around it. Learning from their lessons, these people do not.
'Anonymous' gives you, the reader, a contemporary vision of the pissed and provocative of tabloid England but somehow, also makes you feel a little better about our nation with the realisation that our transatlantic cousins are in many ways the same, if not worse, in their behaviour too.
With it's full-on style and bags of attitude these characters, if they could, would most likely leap out of the book, challenge you to a fight and then piss down the back of your sofa whilst you sat transfixed at what element of debauchery they would do next.
Richie Andrews thrusts this window into the culture into your face with all the sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll that accompanies it. His ability to capture the times we live in is both unflinching and edgy and 'Anonymous' is a stirring commentary on the human condition that grabs you by the throat and won’t let go. Make mine a double.