BED

Bed was published in 2011 by Canongate in the UK, Scribner in the US and 16 other countries. It won The Betty Trask Prize 2012.

"Outlandishly clever description... Ingenious one-liners... There's no question that [David Whitehouse] is a writer to watch" - Janet Maslin, New York Times

"A gorgeous, heartrending book, a book full of sentences so apt and well-wrought I sometimes had to read them twice" - Henry Alford, San Francisco Chronicle

"Gorgeous writing... A deceptively effortless, haunting first novel" - Boston Globe

"Staggering, inventive and heartbreakingly beautiful" - Esquire