\"Are we making a bomb?\" \"This is a trust exercise, like in drama,\" she says. \"Are we making a bomb as a trust exercise?\" Fifteen-year-old Oliver Tate is terrified that his family is falling apart. He fears for his depressed father and is convinced that his mother is having an affair with her capoeira teacher....

From the wickedly funny author of Submarine comes a hilarious new tragicomedy a screwball tale of millennial angst, pre-midlife crises and one man\"s valiant quest to come of age in his thirties. Blisteringly funny and brimming with caustic charm......

The last day on earth is coming. Bring your own booze. Kate and Albert, sister and brother, are not yet the last two human beings on earth, but Albert has high hopes. The secluded communal farm they grew up on is - after twenty years - disintegrating, along with their parents\' marriage....

Meet Oliver Tate, 15. Convinced that his father is depressed (\"Depression comes in bouts. Like boxing. Dad is in the blue corner\") and his mother is having an affair with her capoeira teacher, \"a hippy-looking twonk\", he embarks on a hilariously misguided campaign to bring the family back together....