A View From the Bridge
Sex. Drugs. Murder. Roast pork with all the trimmings.
In this debut collection of short stories, Scam Likely examines and dissects a range of twenty-first century lives in meticulous, uncompromising detail. Likely’s characters are young and old, rich and poor, and drawn from all walks of life: against their shared backdrop of the English South coast, their professional, emotional and social lives are thrown into sharp relief.
Of all the young, independent, fearless and creative authors I have read, Scam Likely is the first.
Clive Barry, Chair, Southampton Guild of Florists
You’ve heard of writing with a sting in the tail – Scam Likely writes stories with an oozing excrescent boil nestled amidst their collective buttocks. Scam’s characters are devious and cowardly, overwhelmed and fearful, occasionally warm and hopeful, and always utterly real.
I hope this is the first of many works from Scam Likely, I am impatient to read more.
Chris Richards, In Common
A View From the Bridge takes the city of Southampton and lays it bare in a way that literature has never done before. The streets are alive with grime. The main thoroughfares hum with the constant bicker of traffic and sirens. The suburbs slink obstinately around. And the living rooms and dining rooms, kitchens and bedrooms and bathrooms of the city are wide open for your viewing pleasure.
Sharply observed, tautly written and wickedly funny, A View from the Bridge takes a city and from it creates a character – complex, and horridly compelling.
Matt R.C. Browne, author of Florian’s Boys
A View From the Bridge is available now: see for yourself what all the fuss is about.