It's a coming of age saga of a teenage boy in England I think, totally unrecognizable as anything like my growing up. Consider it a modern Romeo and Juliet around a performance of Romeo and Juliet.
It has some good phrases. I liked "those who pass off Pesto as a vegetable".
As I read it I do recognise some experiences from my growing up, like the watching the world spin around you when you are so drunk. What was the other that I was going to mention? Oh yes, he describes falling off his bike as when time went very slowly - Not my experience at all.
Amy's idea to make it into a coffee shop was brilliant, just 20 years too early. I don't know why it failed.
I struggled a bit because he started to tell his new love Niamh about those times, and then it wasn't dialogue but telling the story as if he was running it through his head again. I like the way he went to the reunion and came away happy having seen Fran happy.
P: I have read another of this author’s books, One Day and absolutely loved it (would probably give it a 8-9) so I had high hopes for this which regrettably weren’t met It was good, I thought the character development was very good and I enjoyed getting into the mind of an adolescent boy! I enjoyed the writing style and I quite enjoyed the story, though it felt a bit chick-flick B movie. But like I said, I was comparing it to something else and if I wasn’t, I might have scored it higher. Mark 7.
other marks 7, 7, 8.5
