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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 02/05/2013
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ISBN: 9780099268765
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Length: 384 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 24mm x 129mm
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Weight: 266g
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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.
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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 02/05/2013
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ISBN: 9780099268765
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Length: 384 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 24mm x 129mm
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Weight: 266g
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RRP: £9.99
Reviews
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"A delight: a boisterous, kindly, deep, sweet romp of a thing"
Scotsman
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"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"
Andrew O'Hagan
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"This is the best Scottish fiction since Lanark"
Scottish Review of Books
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"Morally sensitive, exquisitely written and emotionally mature"
Guardian
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"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"
Janice Galloway, Scotsman
