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Richard Owain Roberts

    Richard Owain Roberts is a writer of exceptional stylistic talent, bringing characters and places vibrantly to life. His works offer poignant and emotive reflections on loneliness, guilt, and personal trauma, often delving into the complexities of grief and the challenges of living amidst cosmic injustice. Roberts writes with an audacious imagination, characterized by a unique rhythm of short sections and tightly wrought sentences that create a forward momentum. His evocative and beautiful prose captures place and personhood wisely and humanely, making his work both undeniably cool and deeply soulful.

    Hello Friend We Missed You
    • 2022

      Hello Friend We Missed You

      • 200 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      HELLO FRIEND WE MISSED YOU is a deeply poignant and bleakly comic debut novel about loneliness, the 'violent revenge thriller' category on Netflix, solipsism, rural gentrification, Jack Black, and learning to exist in the least excruciating way possible. Its story of depression and death on the small Welsh island of Môn, of people armed with every social media completely failing to communicate, is far, far funnier than it has any right to be. It's also, ultimately, extremely moving. An incredible debut novel from a truly unique prose stylist.

      Hello Friend We Missed You