Too Much by Tom Allen

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Having found Tom Allen’s first book, No Shame, so powerful it was always going to be a challenge to live up to that. Just because Too Much didn’t make me cry doesn’t mean it a lesser book.

This book centres more on Tom’s family, and it reminded me a lot of Tom Cox’s writing about his Dad – how their Dads are such rich characters in their lives.