HELLO FRIEND WE MISSED YOU is a deeply poignantand bleakly comic debut novel about loneliness, the 'violentrevenge thriller' category on Netflix, solipsism, ruralgentrification, Jack Black, and learning to exist in the leastexcruciating way possible.Its story of depression and death on the small Welsh islandof Môn, of people armed with every social media completelyfailing to communicate, is far, far funnier than it has anyright to be. It's also, ultimately, extremely moving. Anincredible debut novel from a truly unique prose stylist.