Imprint: Vintage
Published: 02/05/2013
ISBN: 9780099268765
Length: 384 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 24mm x 129mm
Weight: 266g
RRP: £9.99
Winner of the James Tait Black Fiction Prize
For 16-year-old Simon Crimmons there is not a lot to do. Going nowhere, fed up with school, he leaves to work as a driver on the trains. That summer he is introduced to a world of grown-up glamour, strikes and girlfriends. When Simon falls for the ethereal, aristocratic Varie, he finds freedom and adventure but will it be at a price? Too ‘posh’ for the railways, too ‘working class’ for Varie, Simon must navigate what it means to be a man as his world is turned upside down.
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 02/05/2013
ISBN: 9780099268765
Length: 384 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 24mm x 129mm
Weight: 266g
RRP: £9.99
A delight: a boisterous, kindly, deep, sweet romp of a thing
Absolutely beautiful... As far as I'm concerned he's emerging as the William Faulkner of British fiction: somebody who's created a body of work that has not only animated a language but a period and a place... He has this incredible talent
This is the best Scottish fiction since Lanark
Morally sensitive, exquisitely written and emotionally mature
If you still haven’t read it from last year, Alan Warner’s The Deadman’s Pedal was out in paperback in this. Read it