The cult classic novel of growing up in 1950s England from the writer of Withnail and I

_______________________ 'Hums with particularity and vision' - Observer 'Never before has the painful, knotty journey to maturity been depicted with such gusto, and never has the venerable Bildungsroman received such riotously profane treatment' - New York Times _______________________ The acclaimed autobiographical debut novel by Oscar-winning screenwriter Bruce Robinson, the author of Withnail and I This is the story of a dysfunctional family. It is about a boy and his grandpa, life and death, sex and hate, dog's meat and cancer. It is also about pornography, enemas, Morse codes, puberty, secrets, God and loathing. It is also about love.

"This book hums with particularity and vision ... Thomas Penman is the work of a genuine prose-writer - and a gifted one at that" - OBSERVER

"This book is in a league-table of revulsion all its own" - SUNDAY TIMES

"Never before has the painful, knotty journey to maturity been depicted with such gusto, and never has the venerable Bildungsroman received such riotously profane treatment." - NEW YORK TIMES