A most remarkable series of linked stories, encompassing a young working-class Englishman's coming of age, written with great humour and pathos.
This is Royston Tester's first book, but he has already been nominated for a slew of awards, been published widely (and internationally, in both journals and the Lambda-prize finalist anthology "The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Essays on Queer Sexuality and Desire"), and charmed the CanLit establishment. His writing is very English, and in a spectacular way; his language is both elegant and colloquial, and always riveting.