Fireball

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Winner of the Media Wales Readers' Prize 2011shortlisted for The Guardian's Not the Booker Prize 2011Four friends. One intensely hot summer that will change their lives forever.When a group of hedonistic teenagers save a woman from drowning they become unlikely local heroes, but their celebrity becomes the focus for first envy, then harassment.Fireball takes us through their last summer together, and one that will come to define their future: a summer of sex, chemical experimentation, shifting loyalties and disillusionment.

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Originally from Vancouver, Tyler Keevil first came to the UK in 1999 to study English at Lancaster University. He moved to Prague to try his hand at being a starving writer. When the money ran out, he moved to Wales in 2003 and he currently lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Gloucestershire.

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