by David Mitchell - £9.99 Hodder and Stoughton (2007)
paperback
ISBN 13: 9780340822807 | ISBN 10: 0340822805
January, 1982. Thirteen-year-old Jason Tyler - covert stammerer and reluctant poet - anticipates a stultifying year in his backwater English village. But he hasn't reckoned with bullis, simmering family discord, the Falklands War, a threatened gypsy invasion and those mysterious entities known as girls.
Charting thirteen months in the black hole between childhood and adolescence, this is a captivating novel, wry, painful and vibrant with the stuff of life.
"David Mitchell is dizzyingly, dazzlingly good... The everyday details of Jason's life are lyrically transformed by the power of his prose, which is beguiling, funny, beautifully poetic and always keenly observed."
(Eithne Parry, Dail Mail)
(Price & availability last checked: June 2018)
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