Life Knocks

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2012 DUNDEE INTERNATIONAL BOOK PRIZE. "Life Knocks makes the reader feel smugly efficient at finding treasure. His observations make the reader want to see more of people and more of life." "You will miss his voice, when it's finished. That is the kind of book it is. Genius." "one of the most honest, compelling, hilarious books I have ever picked up." "Craig Stone is a master of metaphors. Beautiful." The more Colossus Sosloss shuts himself off from the world, the more people knock on his door, hence, Life Knocks Life Knocks is the story of a recluse, who finds himself forced to live with a lonely old man with boundary and mental health issues. Life Knocks is a story of love lost and found, of light in dark places. A story about discovering companionship in isolation. The story confronts, challenges, evokes laughter, tears and, in parts, might offend...But then life never claimed to be Disney world.