{"product_id":"the-three-rooms-in-valeries-head-isbn-9781603094153","title":"The Three Rooms in Valerie's Head","description":"British comedy blended with universal regret, this darkly funny graphic novel, using surreal yet beautiful visions, explores the ways we remain haunted by our ex-lovers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eValerie has a rich interior life. Serially unlucky in love, to feel better she imagines that her previous boyfriends are dead and that their bodies are kept downstairs in the cellar in a strange, mummified state. Every day she brings them upstairs and speaks with them about what went wrong.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat follows is a series of peculiar and funny, and sometimes disturbing short tales about inept lovers, weird obsessions, and socially malfunctioning men who repeatedly fail to build a relationship with poor Valerie.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eApart from Stanley. Stanley was special.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCould he be the one to save her?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Three Rooms in Valerie’s Head\u003c\/i\u003e is a dark comedy about relationships, memory, loneliness and obsession and is the first collaboration between ultra-short fiction writer David Gaffney and comic artist Dan Berry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Funny, poignant, surreal and still warmly emotional and human, a delight to read.\" - \u003ci\u003eForbidden Planet International Blog\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It’s a wonderfully offbeat, dark comedic delight.\" - \u003ci\u003eComicon.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Gaffney \u003c\/b\u003ecomes from Cleator Moor in West Cumbria and now lives in Manchester. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eSawn-off Tales\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), \u003ci\u003eAromabingo\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), \u003ci\u003eNever Never\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), \u003ci\u003eThe Half-life of Songs\u003c\/i\u003e (2010) and his latest collection of short stories, \u003ci\u003eMore Sawn-Off Tales\u003c\/i\u003e ( 2013). He has written articles for the \u003ci\u003eGuardian, Sunday Times, Financial Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eProspect\u003c\/i\u003e magazine and was a judge for the 2015 Bridport prize. His story \"The Staring Man\" is featured in the 2016 collection \u003ci\u003eBest British Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, his new novel, \u003ci\u003eAll The Places I've Ever Lived\u003c\/i\u003e, is out in February 2017 on Urbane, and his graphic novel with Dan Berry, \u003ci\u003eThe Three Rooms In Valerie's Head\u003c\/i\u003e, is out in March 2017 on Top Shelf.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDan Berry\u003c\/b\u003e is an illustrator, designer, cartoonist and lecturer based in the town of Shrewsbury, UK. He is the Programme Leader for the BA\/MDES Illustration, Graphic Novels and Children’s Publishing degree courses at the School of Creative Arts, Wrexham Glyndwr University. Since 2012 he has produced the podcast \u003ci\u003eMake It Then Tell Everybody\u003c\/i\u003e in which he has spoken to over a hundred other artists about what they do and how they do it. He also records a comedy podcast with Hannah Berry (no relation) entitled \u003ci\u003eNo YOU Hang Up\u003c\/i\u003e. He has produced illustration work for \u003ci\u003eThe NME\u003c\/i\u003e, Michael Rosen, The National Union of Teachers, and more.","brand":"Top Shelf Productions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301403119845,"sku":"NP9781603094153","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781603094153.jpg?v=1767741847","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-three-rooms-in-valeries-head-isbn-9781603094153","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}