Dead Lucky: A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick
Autor Connor Hutchinsonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 iul 2026
A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK!
'Moving and shocking, and profoundly poetic' Mike Leigh, film director
'Almost unbearably compulsive . . . never less than rhapsodically funny' Sunday Times
'A wild ride' Financial Times
'Compelling' Daily Mail
'It's dark comedy meets toxic masculinity' The Times
'[A] sharp debut' The Independent
Think of being on your deathbed and thinking about all them nights where you said no, just 'cause you were a bit short on money. That's not how I wanted to live.
Jamie Fletcher should be the luckiest man in Manchester. His girlfriend Rebecca is out of his league, he has a best mate and drinking buddy in Trick, and he loves his job at a busy funeral home. Preparing the dead is not something Jamie takes lightly - whether it's choosing the right stockings for his old dinner lady, or playing the local butcher's favourite album to him before cremation.
But beneath his seemingly perfect life, Jamie has been keeping a big secret - one he reveals only to the dead. His gambling addiction has left him in eye-watering debt, and he's running out of ways to keep it hidden.
When Rebecca decides it's time for them to buy their first home together, he knows he has to do something to cover his tracks. Desperate, Jamie does what he knows best - he walks up to the bookies and places the biggest bet of his life.
How far will he go until his luck runs out?
Tonight could be the night that changes everything. You just never know.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781472159076
ISBN-10: 1472159071
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 126 x 198 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Corsair
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1472159071
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 126 x 198 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Corsair
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Recenzii
Hutchinson brings coffinfuls of black humour and foul-mouthed grisliness to his heartfelt portrait of working-class life in this comic debut novel . . . It's [the] vivid, painterly details that leap most memorably from the page . . . Poetic snapshots of street life manage to capture whole lives in single pieces of clothing. The evocation of gambling's sickening exhilaration is almost unbearably compulsive, and Hutchinson's ode to working-class life is serious and tender. His writing about Jamie's day job, too, is never less than rhapsodically funny.
Having grown up in working-class North Manchester, I can vouch for the remarkable accuracy of Dead Lucky. But Connor Hutchinson goes beyond surface naturalism to deliver a story that is both moving and shocking, and profoundly poetic.
[A] wild ride - and a thunderingly exciting depiction of what it's like to join the crowds at Cheltenham Gold Cup . . . a story of booze, banter, lairy nights out with the lads and increasingly dangerous stakes.
It's dark comedy meets toxic masculinity
Summer holidays are a good time to try out new novels, and among the recommended fiction out this month is Connor Hutchinson's sharp debut, Dead Lucky. In it, Hutchinson tells the story of an embalmer at a funeral home who is drawn into the addictive world of gambling to pay his debts.
Compelling
A bold, biting exploration of masculinity, working-class struggle and self-destruction - infused with unexpected heart and wicked humour. A wildly original look at what we bury to survive.
A stunningly realistic portrayal of gambling addiction . . . Dead Lucky announces Hutchinson as a writer to listen to about the love and pain in our society
Here is a gambling novel for our age of stagnant incomes and predatory apps: a boisterous, mordant parable from the backside of Manchester, where hope and delusion mingle inextricably among the boozers and betting shops. With vulgar wisdom and a crackling cant, Hutchinson lures his readers into the flashing heart of the most destructive addiction of them all.
My kind of book. Utilising a narrative voice that hooks you in from the off, there's nothing remotely pretentious about this compellingly convincing portrayal of community, ambition, and the perils of addiction. It's real and raw with a refreshing but scarily accurate relatability; I bet lots of readers will be sucked in by this essential story of our times as much as I was
Mancunian to its core and infused with subtle northern poetry, this book feels startlingly real. Jamie Fletcher, an embalmer at a busy funeral home in Openshaw, understands better than most how fleeting life can be. So, when the chance to win big arises, why would he refuse?
Connor Hutchinson brilliantly captures the grip of addiction: the lies Jamie tells to protect his secret and his slow unravelling
Having grown up in working-class North Manchester, I can vouch for the remarkable accuracy of Dead Lucky. But Connor Hutchinson goes beyond surface naturalism to deliver a story that is both moving and shocking, and profoundly poetic.
[A] wild ride - and a thunderingly exciting depiction of what it's like to join the crowds at Cheltenham Gold Cup . . . a story of booze, banter, lairy nights out with the lads and increasingly dangerous stakes.
It's dark comedy meets toxic masculinity
Summer holidays are a good time to try out new novels, and among the recommended fiction out this month is Connor Hutchinson's sharp debut, Dead Lucky. In it, Hutchinson tells the story of an embalmer at a funeral home who is drawn into the addictive world of gambling to pay his debts.
Compelling
A bold, biting exploration of masculinity, working-class struggle and self-destruction - infused with unexpected heart and wicked humour. A wildly original look at what we bury to survive.
A stunningly realistic portrayal of gambling addiction . . . Dead Lucky announces Hutchinson as a writer to listen to about the love and pain in our society
Here is a gambling novel for our age of stagnant incomes and predatory apps: a boisterous, mordant parable from the backside of Manchester, where hope and delusion mingle inextricably among the boozers and betting shops. With vulgar wisdom and a crackling cant, Hutchinson lures his readers into the flashing heart of the most destructive addiction of them all.
My kind of book. Utilising a narrative voice that hooks you in from the off, there's nothing remotely pretentious about this compellingly convincing portrayal of community, ambition, and the perils of addiction. It's real and raw with a refreshing but scarily accurate relatability; I bet lots of readers will be sucked in by this essential story of our times as much as I was
Mancunian to its core and infused with subtle northern poetry, this book feels startlingly real. Jamie Fletcher, an embalmer at a busy funeral home in Openshaw, understands better than most how fleeting life can be. So, when the chance to win big arises, why would he refuse?
Connor Hutchinson brilliantly captures the grip of addiction: the lies Jamie tells to protect his secret and his slow unravelling