It’s about the now and forces within rather than external constraints. It a beautifully written emotional rollercoaster ride of a read that will remain in your memory and make you wish you could take a tour of the old school, where the plot unfolds, where there’s sure to be a strong whiff of John Rebhorn about the Headmasters Office: not so much as Scent of a Woman as The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner in this novel however. “The Fell flows like Kerouac’s On the Road and bites like Kesy’s One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nestįrom the opening chapters that provide a deep escape such as in Proust’s Finding Time Again is turns dark suddenly and explores the realms of crime and punishment so doggedly forged by Dostoyevsky. “ Perhaps the best ever rejection letter from the fiction editor of an international top five publishing house…. The humour, the exploration of young male friendship and adolescence, the evocation of abandoned children are all well done.
“At times I felt I was reading a savage Harry Potter or a new Laura Solomon, a contemporary Steinbeck, Salinger or William Golding. “The beginning blew me away –I loved the voice, the style, the details, the insights, the commentary on the human condition without being preachy, the cinematic quality, the capturing of childhood memory and viewpoint, the pace, the characters, the humour, the poignancy, the tough reality – so much!
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