January 1982. Thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor
- covert stammerer & reluctant poet
- anticipates a stultifying year in his backwater English village. But he hasnt 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.