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A Boy´s Guide to Track and Field
Sabrina Broadbent
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Description for A Boy´s Guide to Track and Field
Paperback. Lem Gulliver (25, maths teacher), can't seem to leave home. He can't understand how the people around him manage the plot of a grown-up life - careers, mortgages, marriages, homes, friends. With no girlfriend, no place of his own, no ambition and no prospects, the only real direction in his life seem to be the tracks of the Victoria line. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 160.
Lem Gulliver (25, maths teacher), can't seem to leave home. His mother (46, courtroom artist) and step-father (49, AA patrol man), make no secret of the fact that he's become a cuckoo in the nest but since his girlfriend left him for a dog trainer, Lem has returned to his natural state of emotional drift. He can't understand how the people around him manage the plot of a grown-up life.
A Boy's Guide to Track and Field starts at Walthamstow and travels southbound towards Brixton; the reader is swept along with Lem in a review of the past which ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099464532
SKU
V9780099464532
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About Sabrina Broadbent
Sabrina Broadbent's debut novel, Descent, won the W.H. Smith Raw Talent Award and her third novel, You Don't Have To Be Good, was published in 2009 by Chatto & Windus. She used to teach English at a comprehensive school in North London and now works with FILMCLUB, which works with teachers to set up and support free after-school film clubs ... Read more
Reviews for A Boy´s Guide to Track and Field
Countless modern novels tackle the breakdown of previously equal relationships between men and women following the arrival of children, but few do it with the sparkle and perception of Broadbent
Guardian
This stunning debut... is not to be missed... very funny, absorbing and moving, this comes highly recommended
Good Book Guide
Peppered with sharp observations... refreshingly ... Read more
Guardian
This stunning debut... is not to be missed... very funny, absorbing and moving, this comes highly recommended
Good Book Guide
Peppered with sharp observations... refreshingly ... Read more