A Boy's Guide to Track and Field
  • Published: 3 September 2007
  • ISBN: 9780099464532
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $22.99

A Boy's Guide to Track and Field

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Wry, poignant and inventive - this is a story about a boy, and a young man, who feels lost in this uncertain world and is struggling to find his way.

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 gradually accelerates into the present.
  • Published: 3 September 2007
  • ISBN: 9780099464532
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Sabrina Broadbent

Sabrina Broadbent's debut novel, Descent, won the W.H. Smith Raw Talent Award. She is also the author of the novel A Boy's Guide to Track and Field. 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 in schools throughout the UK. She lives in London.

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Praise for A Boy's Guide to Track and Field

Acutely and wittily observed

Kate Saunders, The Times

An entertaining take on the mores of contemporary society

Time Out

The writing is subtle, funny and refreshingly superior...Recommended for young urbanites

Andrew Morrod, Daily Mail

Peppered with sharp observations... refreshingly original

Tom Boncza-Tomaszewski, Independent on Sunday

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

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