<p><b>''We got a McDonald''s the night my mam got lung cancer.''</b><br><br>As a distraction from sleazy male admirers, spiteful classmates and her mother''s cancer, Eve''s eyes are opened to a multicolour life of one-night stands, drug-fuelled discos and cheap booze. She barely has time to notice the reclusive, obsessive-compulsive Adam. Adam, however, notices Eve.<br><br>Narrated alternately by Adam and Eve alongside a cast of delinquents, foetuses and butterflies, <i>Apples</i> is an exploration of the sickly-sweet turmoil of growing up and the hazards of getting ''fucked as quick as you can''.<br><br>First published in 2007 and reissued now by White Rabbit, <i>Apples</i> arrived like a meteor on the literary landscape with Milward barely out of his teenage years.</p>