…a hilarious, angry and sympathetic portrait of boys behaving badly, teeming with sadistic bullies, imperfect heroes, adolescent onanists and ice-cream gorging hedonists.’— The West Australian

“The boarding school memoir or novel is an enduring literary subgenre, from 1950…”

“From the opening sentence, it is clear that we are in the presence of a writer …”

“The novel is apparently autobiographical and is being publicised as such but Do…”