The dazzling from critically-acclaimed David Mitchell.Shortlisted for the 2006 Costa Novel AwardLonglisted for the Man Booker Prize 2006January, 1982. Thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor - covert stammerer and reluctant poet - anticipates a stultifying year in his backwater English village. But he hasn't reckoned with bullies, simmering family discord, the Falklands War, a threatened gypsy invasion and those mysterious entities known as girls. Charting thirteen months in the black hole between childhood and adolescence, this is a captivating novel, wry, painful and vibrant with the stuff of life.(P)2006 Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
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The Sunday Times bestseller.
Spry, disconcerting and moving. It is also extremely funny even - or especially - at the blackest of moments
The Sunday Times bestseller.
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9781844564361
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2006-08-10
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Hodder & Stoughton
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00, G, 01
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Engelsk
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Lydfil
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