“The novel is apparently autobiographical and is being publicised as such but Doust has done with his material what so many autobiographical novelists fail to do: he has turned it into a shapely story, with no extraneous material or diversions… — Jon Doust Copy Share Image
“From the opening sentence, it is clear that we are in the presence of a writer with a distinctive voice and uncanny ability to… — Jon Doust Copy Share Image
“The boarding school memoir or novel is an enduring literary subgenre, from 1950s classics such as The Catcher in the Rye to Curtis Sittenfeld’s… — Jon Doust Copy Share Image
“The novel is apparently autobiographical and is being publicised as such but Doust has done with his material what so many autobiographical novelists fail… — Jon Doust Copy Share Image
“…a hilarious, angry and sympathetic portrait of boys behaving badly, teeming with sadistic bullies, imperfect heroes, adolescent onanists and ice-cream gorging hedonists.’— The West… — Jon Doust Copy Share Image
