JERNIGAN TPB – DAVID GATES-STUART EVERS

Peter Jernigan s life is slipping out of control. His wife s gone, he s lost his job and he s a stranger to his teenage son. Worse, his only relief from all this reality – alcohol – is less effective by the day. And when the medicine doesn t work, you up the dose. And when that doesn t work, what then? (Apart from upping the dose again anyway, because who knows?) Jernigan s answer is to slowly turn his caustic wit on everyone around him – his wife Judith, his teenage son Danny, his vulnerable new girlfriend Martha and, eventually, himself – until the laughs have turned to mute horror. But while he s busy burning every bridge back to the people who love him, Jernigan s perverse charisma keeps us all in thrall to the bitter end. Shot through with gin and irony, Jernigan is a funny, scary, mesmerising portrait of a man walking off the edge with his eyes wide open – wisecracking all the way.