Dimensions
143 x 220 x 27mm
'I was born in 1982. I grew up knowing my childhood and my adulthood would take place in different centuries. I can hardly remember anything about my first five years except a peach leather couch and a fake gas fire.' Meet Jim Thorne. It's 1990 and Jim's family has moved to the north. Jim's mum is one of a quartet of powerful, brilliant sisters ('Why are called the Albrights? Because we're all stars.'). Jim's dad is more concerned with whether Mario is of a higher moral standing than Sonic. His sister is plotting her ascent on the art world while untangling the knot of puberty. And Jim is attempting to understand love, and what it's got to do with his inflatable dolphin, Dilly. In times of plenty, what hungers remain? How does the boy become the adult? This is the story of Jim Thorne and the Albright sisters; the art, the love and the mess that they made.
