
The dazzling novel from critically-acclaimed David Mitchell Shortlisted for the 2006 Costa Novel Award Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2006 January 1982 Thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor
- covert stammerer & reluctant poet
- anticipates a stultifying year in his backwater English village But he hasn't reckoned with bullies simmering family discord the Falklands War a threatened gypsy invasion & those mysterious entities known as girls Charting thirteen months in the black hole between childhood & adolescence this is a captivating novel wry painful & vibrant with the stuff of life