Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Matt Young, author of Eat The Apple, published in February by Bloomsbury. I have interviewed so many people from the Clegg agency and have interviewed Bill himself. He is an amazing agent. [insert books?]

Eat The Apple is not a novel and it is not a diary and it is not a standard narrative of war or of being a soldier. It is not stream of consciousness nor is it a dialogue on war.

It’s more a reliving of a time. A time of Marine training, of three deployments to Iraq, a kind of a dream, a diagram, sometimes in the first person, sometimes in the second, sometimes a picture of Matt’s body and a self-diagnosis of pain, physical and psychic. Sometimes comically.

Whatever it may be, or what you feel it may be, it won’t easily be forgotten.