Covert stammerer and secret poet, 13 year old Jason Taylor is growing up in the deadest village in England, anticipating a stultifying year but he hasn't reckoned with smouldering family discord, a junta of bullies, the Falklands War, a Gypsy invasion, an eccentric old lady or the weird behaviour of creatures called girls. Sometimes funny, sometimes painful, this novel brilliantly evokes the bewildering world of adolescence. It surely must be semi-autobiographical.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 41 August 2007 ) |
