What I Did is every parent’s nightmare, but will make you burst out laughing too.” —Emma Donoghue, author of Room “Gripping, hilarious, tender and a whole lot more, this is, without doubt, one of the books of the year.” —Daily Mail (London) “A powerful, poignant and funny novel perched on the precarious line between protecting children and destroying families.” —Melbourne Age “Amusing and unsettling . . . What I Did lets us into the mind of a child who is comically literal and utterly at sea in the world of adults.” —The Guardian (London) “Horribly plausible . . . [What I Did] brilliantly captures parent-child relations in the raw.” —The Independent (London) “Wakling creates believable conflict from the everyday facts of a child going just too far and a parent losing it. . . . The novel is a strong depiction of a family in crisis.” —Sunday Age (Melbourne) “A powerful parable of twenty-first-century society . . . a fine, challenging novel.” —Mail on Sunday (London) “I loved it!
