'I would like to claim that I discovered Christopher Coake but you can't really discover writers like this: the quality of the work is so blindingly obvious he was never going to labour in obscurity for any length of time . . . We're In Trouble is, for the most part, a book about death - quite often, about how death affects the young . . . Sometimes, when you're reading the stories, you forget to breathe, which probably means that you read them with more speed than the writer intended . . . They're beautifully written, and they have bottom . . . striking and dramatic' Nick Hornby, Believer
