Jesus and the Adman - Hardcover

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Born in Tenby, South Wales, Rhidian Brook lives in London with his wife Nicola and his son Gabriel. He is currently working on his third novel.

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Johnny Yells is young, fit and ambitious, with a great job in advertising and everything to gain. Far from set back by the sudden death of his father, he finds it peculiarly useful: at the funeral he gets the idea for his first really successful campaign. The image of the Smiling Jesus changes the face of life assurance and brings Johnny acclaim throughout the advertising world, along with a promotion, a new car and a new flat in a swanky part of town. He's getting all he ever wanted.

But when Johnny goes down with a flu bug, it affects him strangely powerfully. Why has he become so obsessed with thoughts of his own death? Why does the world he has built around him seem suddenly so unreal? And is his sense that the Smiling Jesus on the campaign posters is beginning to frown at him a sign that he is going mad?

Johnny Yells is a modern Everyman tackling the everyday questions of life, death and the meaning of everything in the glamorous and ephemeral world of advertising. In this disquieting novel Rhidian Brook provides a teasing affecting and elusive read.

PRAISE FOR THE TESTIMONY OF TALIESIN JONES

"Highly accomplished… A panacea for a cynical age"
RUSSELL CELYN JONES, 'The Times'

"Not just an impressive first novel – an impressive any novel… In short, a healing read"
MICHAEL CARSON, 'author of Sucking Sherbert Lemons'

"The accomplished patterns and Brooks easy style from a readable and poetic first novel"
GUARDIAN

"A touching novel, humorous and poetic… as competent as the publisher's claim"
LITERARY REVIEW

"Very upright, very moral, very entertaining… you'll find yourself seduced by the quiet power of the Welshman's prose, the subtlety of his narrative technique, with its onion-skin layers of meaning, sympathy and revelation"
TIME OUT

"Subtle and sublime, Brook's first novel is far out of the ordinary run"
WESTERN MAIL