Women Will Save Us

Blending bildungsroman with shaggy dog story, Women Will Save Us moves through sixties and seventies counter culture as it runs headlong into the gender politics prevailing at the turn of the eighties. Frank and funny in the way it dwells in the realms of high and low art, Broady ponders in his inimitable prose on male privilege and why it took so long to be challenged!

One of the very best British ‘coming of age’ stories, one where you become part of the time and place, all rendered in flawless detail. Twists and turns that absorb the reader. Quite majestic. – Chris Nickson

A beautifully understated account of growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, vivid, tender and delicately funny. This is Billy Fisher on acid, cynical, incompetent and confused, lost between Dostoevsky and Tarkovsky, hopelessly waiting to be saved by the lenitive power of women. – Andy Croft

Women Will Save Us is a wondrous achievement. Broady makes every word count, and repeatedly to devastating effect. Razor-sharp, effortlessly funny, and all underpinned by the highest of literary devices: the truth. Exquisite from first page to last. – Richard Owain Roberts

Women Will Save Us is Broady’s fifth published novel, following hard on the heels of There’s No ‘F’ In Wonderful (Salt), a novel set in the world of Northern Soul and Yorkshire casinos in the 1970s. His earlier works are: Swimmer; In This Block There Lives A Slag (winner of the PEN short story prize); Eternity Is Temporary; and The Night-Soil Men.

Bill lives and works in Bradford.