Brodie Crellin

Crellin has a genius for tracking the internal logic behind all kinds of catastrophically bad behavior. A Sense of Occasion is a wonderful book, at once shrewd and ethereal.

Crellin is an astonishing writer, their sentences ring like bells and are so sharp and perfect. This book is sexy, terrifying, keen and startling

Perfectly paced; sexy and intelligent and truly profound on the costs of living and performing one’s sexuality in public and private

So smart, often so funny, and incredibly moving, Brodie Crellin explores love, desire, family, and dynamics of power, care and dependence with total honesty. Brodie's amazing on the complex, often fraught relationships between the family and the individual, on the psychological asymmetries inherent to intimacy, and on the ways that reality can start to feel contingent on the presence of another person. Masterfully constructed, yet so vivid and absorbing that I frequently forgot it was constructed at all. A profound, immersive, visceral, tender, deeply accomplished and completely unique novel

An immensely fun read in which prickly, awkward people do prickly, awkward things in such soft, funny, human ways that you cannot help but be charmed by them all. A delight!

A death in the (dysfunctional) family – can they hold it together long enough to organise the funeral? 
 
'Crellin is an astonishing writer' DAISY JOHNSON 
 
'At once shrewd and ethereal' CHRIS KRAUS 
 
Mary’s death is bad news – for her daughter Patch, ex-partner Robin, and niece Jude. 
 
It will mean a funeral. But Patch can barely keep track of her mother’s journey from the hospital to the mortuary, let alone host a wake in her childhood home. 
 
Robin wants to support her, but instead of assuming the role of responsible father, he heads to his former haunt: the lay-by where he used to meet farmers for sex. 
 
Jude’s on her way from Naples, worrying less about Patch, her estranged cousin, and more about whether there’s a medicinal bag of cocaine in the boot. She hasn’t told the family she’s en route. This way, any lingering acrimony will be forgotten, and Jude’s past behaviour will be forgiven. 
 
Thrown together in Mary’s tiny house, each of them is trying to feel something: to grieve, atone, join in, be better. But they rarely have one another’s best interests at heart, and as the connections between them twist and contort, they lose sight of the rules and grasp towards anything that might make it all less painful. 
 
Darkly funny, deeply entertaining, and intensely moving, A Sense of Occasion subverts and perverts your expectations to reveal the fractious desires that simmer beneath the surface of our lives. 
 
'Sexy and intelligent' MERVE EMRE 
 
'Explores love, desire, family, and dynamics of power, care and dependence with total honesty' HARRIET ARMSTRONG 
 
'Immensely fun' LIZZY STEWART

Brodie Crellin

Praise for A Sense of Occasion

**Crellin has a genius for tracking the internal logic behind all kinds of catastrophically bad behavior. A Sense of Occasion is a wonderful book, at once shrewd and ethereal.**

Crellin is an astonishing writer, their sentences ring like bells and are so sharp and perfect. This book is sexy, terrifying, keen and startling

Perfectly paced; sexy and intelligent and truly profound on the costs of living and performing one’s sexuality in public and private

**Crellin has a genius for tracking the internal logic behind all kinds of catastrophically bad behavior. A Sense of Occasion is a wonderful book, at once shrewd and ethereal.**

Crellin is an astonishing writer, their sentences ring like bells and are so sharp and perfect. This book is sexy, terrifying, keen and startling

Perfectly paced; sexy and intelligent and truly profound on the costs of living and performing one’s sexuality in public and private

**Crellin has a genius for tracking the internal logic behind all kinds of catastrophically bad behavior. A Sense of Occasion is a wonderful book, at once shrewd and ethereal.**

Crellin is an astonishing writer, their sentences ring like bells and are so sharp and perfect. This book is sexy, terrifying, keen and startling

Perfectly paced; sexy and intelligent and truly profound on the costs of living and performing one’s sexuality in public and private

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