Fledgling

A compelling, tender, unforgettable portrait of a challenging father, juxtaposed with stunning, sometimes disturbing vignettes of the natural world. With precise, evocative, but always unexpected prose, this debut novel evokes an alienated rural childhood and adolescence and a son's attempt to escape the shadow of a controlling patriarch.

Josh Holton is an ex-MMA fighter who took too many blows to the head and now writes and draws the unexpected. He placed in Streetcake’s Experimental Writing Prize 2021, and was runner up in the Writers’ and Artists’ Working Class Writers’ Prize 2020. Fledgling is his first novel.