“From the opening sentence, it is clear that we are in the presence of a writer with a distinctive voice and uncanny… — 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… — 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… — 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.’—… — Jon Doust Copy Share Image
