In The Fib The Swap & The Trick George Layton's collections of short stories evoke a nostalgic atmospheric view of growing up in the 1950s Now published together for the first time as a bind-up The coach started to move off I felt frightened All these weeks looking forward to it & now I didn't want to go Please Mum let me go home She was running alongside waving her hanky & crying He'd nagged his mother for weeks to let him go on the school exchange swapping his home in the backstreets of a northern town for a posh house in London With a proper family With a dad But now it was all going wrong