Lolito

A JERWOOD FICTION UNCOVERED PRIZE 2014 WINNER

She''s online.
''I booked a hotel,'' I say. ''Near Marble Arch.''
''That sounds great, hon. I can''t wait to see you.''
''Yeah. Me too.''
''I''m vaguely nervous.''
''Don''t be.''
Do be. I''m a child.
Lolito is a love story about a fifteen year-old boy who meets a middle-aged woman on the internet.
When his long-term girlfriend and first love Alice, betrays him at a house party, Etgar goes looking for cyber solace in the arms of Macy, a stunning but bored housewife he meets online. What could possibly go wrong . . . ?
Hilarious, fearless and utterly outrageous, Lolito is a truly twenty-first century love story.