Five Boys

Proof copy. 8vo. 240 pp. Illustrated wrappers.

Author's second novel. A young Cockney wartime evacuee to rural Devon is victimized by a local gang of five boys. Shortlisted for the 1997 Booker Prize for his literary debut, The Underground Man. "[A] funny, touching and highly original novel, [in which] a close-knit gang of five boys forms a prism that refracts the idiosyncrasies of WWII English life in a small village in Devon." –Publishers Weekly