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.