- Published: 29 November 2012
- ISBN: 9780670923090
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 336
The Boy with the Topknot
A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies
- Published: 29 November 2012
- ISBN: 9780670923090
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 336
About real secrets, in a real quest for understanding. It's tragic, funny and disturbing. It will challenge you, and may even change you
Carole Angier, Independent
Could not be more enjoyable, engaging or moving
Observer
Could not be more enjoyable, engaging or moving
Observer
Fans of Nick Hornby and Jonathan Coe will love this book
Psychologies
Fans of Nick Hornby and Jonathan Coe will love this book
Psychologies
Funny and revealing
Sunday Times
Funny and revealing
Sunday Times
Funny, heartfelt
Marie Claire
Funny, heartfelt
Marie Claire
'Gripping and entertaining, horrifying and tender ... Exposes all those things we take for granted as we grow up
Hardeep Singh Kohli, The Times
'Gripping and entertaining, horrifying and tender ... Exposes all those things we take for granted as we grow up
Hardeep Singh Kohli, The Times
Gripping, tender ... recalls A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Time Out
Gripping, tender ... recalls A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Time Out
Harrowing and impossible to put down
Evening Standard
Harrowing and impossible to put down
Evening Standard
Hilarious, engaging, tragicomic
Meg Rosoff, Guardian
Hugely enjoyable
New Statesman
Hugely enjoyable
New Statesman
I absolutely loved it. Heartbreaking and wonderful. He writes beautifully
Maggie O'Farrell
Intimate and funny
Metro
Intimate and funny
Metro
Marvellous. A book which manages to be colourful, funny, heart-breaking and shocking ... there's a dry wit and unexpectedness about this tale that kept me on my toes throughout
Irish Examiner
Marvellous. A book which manages to be colourful, funny, heart-breaking and shocking ... there's a dry wit and unexpectedness about this tale that kept me on my toes throughout
Irish Examiner
Moving
The London Paper
Moving
Sunday Times
Moving
The London Paper
Moving
Sunday Times
The most moving debut we've read in ages
Elle
The most moving debut we've read in ages
Elle
Told with enormous compassion and dry wit. The climax had me on the edge of my seat
Jonathan Coe
Told with enormous compassion and dry wit. The climax had me on the edge of my seat
Jonathan Coe