Utterly Monkey

Danny Williams didn't mean to be a lawyer, but somehow he is -- and for up to eighteen hours a day. He's well paid, home owning, and twenty-seven but is also overworked, lonely, and frequently stoned. The plan was to leave the troubles of a small town in Northern Ireland for the big city in England, but one evening an old school friend, Geordie, bursts into Danny's shiny new life. On the run from a Loyalist militia, Geordie brings everything Danny thought he had left behind and dumps it on his doorstep.

With infectious wit and energy to burn, Utterly Monkey is a searing, fiercely funny, and ultimately redemptive novel about surviving an office job, outwitting the bad guys, and, hopefully, getting the girl.

Author: Nick Laird
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 01/03/2006
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.80h x 6.38w x 0.87d
ISBN: 9780060828363
Award: Dylan Thomas Prize - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2005 pg. 1102
Publishers Weekly 11/14/2005 pg. 43
Entertainment Weekly 01/13/2006 pg. 86
Booklist 11/15/2005 pg. 22
Library Journal 01/01/2006 pg. 98
Library Journal 01/15/2006
New York Times 02/19/2006 pg. 26
Village Voice 07/15/2009 pg. 36

About the Author
Laird, Nick: -

Nick Laird was born in 1975 in Northern Ireland. He was a scholar at Cambridge University, and later spent a year at Harvard University as a visiting fellow. The author of To a Fault, a poetry collection, he has received several prestigious awards for both poetry and fiction, including the 2005 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.