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.
