Nutcase

Aidan Wilson's misfortune is to be hard as nailsIn this darkly hilarious and seriously horrifying book Williams tells the story of Aidan a vigilante and young offender from one of Sheffield's roughest estates. At breakneck speed we see Aidan's world unravel as he goes from hero to outlaw fighting against all-comers and the circumstances he can't escape. But is he a victim or architect of his own demise? A brutal and breathtaking account of living with violence in the English city.There are lots of crime novels but Nutcase is something different: a novel about crime which isn't interested in the conventions of crime fiction. The novel is based on a specific Icelandic saga: the Saga of Grettir the Strong.Nutcase explores the lives of people who live with violence on a day-to-day basis - how it shapes and distorts their lives and ultimately becomes part of the normality that they live with.