Barnacle Brat (a Dark Comedy for Grown-Ups) - Adrian Baldwin

WINNER of INDIE NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2016 (Readers Choice) at Underground Book Reviews

A modern-day Billy Liar meets Donnie Darko (quirky, surreal and darkly funny)

Losing your grip on reality is a real bummer. Just ask Leon Blank. Not that he d know. Seems those losing their marbles are always the last to find out.

Until recently, Leon would have argued that a tendency to become easily sidetracked on a regular basis wasn t that odd. And what s so unusual about hearing a voice inside your head? Doesn t everyone? Isn t that just thinking?
But his recent visions aren t so freely dismissed; especially the angry-looking clown who s following him around with a baseball bat.

Time to act, Leon decides: perhaps keeping a log will shed light on the mystery.
Then again, could seeing-things just be sexual frustration? It s been a while! If only he had a girlfriend to take his mind off stuff.

Prepare to enter the normally hidden world of delusions, paranoia, and ahem unusual interests: Voyeurism; Feederism; Shoes that kind of thing.