Absolutely not the sort of book I normally read, but I casually picked it up and could hardly put it down. Behan, famous for his 1950s pro-IRA play, The Hostage, was sent over to Liverpool in 1942 to blow something up and was arrested on landing. Being only 16 he was sent to a Borstal and this fluent account of his not altogether unpleasant experience in various institutions is quite fascinating.
(Michael Fitzgerald-Lombard - bwl 22 February 2004 ) |
