A boy runs across a busy road.
His father catches him and smacks him.
A passer-by looks on.
This is what happens next.
Read MoreGripping, hilarious and tender, this is, without doubt, one of the books of the year - Daily MailThe novel brilliantly captures parent-child relations in the raw and the emotions that even the most experienced social worker can't tame - IndependentAn amusing and unsettling story - Saturday GuardianThis is family life at its most believable: warm and messy, bored and raging. WHAT I DID is every parent's nightmare, but will make you burst out laughing too. I loved it. - Emma Donoghue, author of ROOMI loved it! Staggeringly good. Terrifyingly good - Lisa JewellHugely impressive, gripping, funny and thought provoking - Emily BarrExcellent . . . Dark but uplifting - Alex Preston[A] fine, challenging novel - Mail on Sunday