@2@@20@The dazzling novel from critically-acclaimed David Mitchell.@21@@3@@2@@20@Shortlisted for the 2006 Costa Novel Award@21@@16@@20@Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2006@21@@3@@2@January, 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.@3@
ISBN: 978-0-340-82280-7
