A01=Taylor Burns
authentic voice
Author_Taylor Burns
Bildungsroman
Birmingham fiction
Category=FBA
coming-of-age novel
Contemporary literary fiction about working class
Contemporary novel about grief + trauma
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Family-life novel
forthcoming
literary fiction
Novels about social class in the UK
Raw
Thought provoking class narrative
Vernacular prose style
West Midlands Fiction
Working-class fiction
Product details
- ISBN 9781803418537
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2026
- Publisher: Collective Ink
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Trav, thirteen, is trying to come to terms with the death of his father. Jay, Trav�s best friend, is tasked with going through a decade�s worth of writing that Trav wrote after finding his father dead. Stella, Trav�s mother, is trying to keep it together for her son while dealing with irreparable fallout in her adopted family. Together, they try to make sense of grief and its druggy comedown, and what happens when cursed destinies intersect. Powered by the prose � the rhythm and technique � of accent, sociolect, and place, this novel is working-class but not council-estate chic, grim but not grey, and blessed with a slangy Birmingham vernacular not readily found in modern fiction.
Taylor Burns is a writer from Birmingham. Trav is his first novel. Elsewhere, he co-curates STORIE, a night of experimental prose, run in conjunction with Voce Books, where he serves as writer-in-residence.
