Published in April 2009, Daniel Clay’s novel ‘Broken’ offered a prescient vision of the Britain that ignited for a brief but unforgettable instant in the late summer of 2011, when the country’s moral compass went momentarily berserk and pockets of rioting erupted throughout the UK. Narrated by Skunk, a little girl approaching her teenage years, who witnesses a brutal assault on her neighbour, it is a story that gets to the very heart of modern social dysfunction. BROKEN is a powerful, captivating and heartbreaking exploration of love in all its many forms: idealized, unrequited, unwanted, and – ultimately – unconditional.