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  • Published: 11 May 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141197579
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $32.00

In The Making




A moving coming-of-age story from the 1950s, introduced by Peter Parker

Ten-year-old Randal Thane is distressed to be taken from his mother, his governess and his home and sent to prep school. But once there, he discovers an adult world he had never before imagined, and falls unwillingly but entirely under the spell of a charismatic older boy, Felton, who will introduce him to all the pleasures, pains and perplexities of first love.

A unique, enchanting and complicated coming-of-age story about the passion between two young boys, In the Making is widely hailed as G. F. Green's masterpiece, and is now in print for the first time since its original publication in 1952.

  • Published: 11 May 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141197579
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $32.00

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Praise for In The Making

The most neglected writer of his generation

Elizabeth Bowen

Pure, tense, and incontrovertibly a modern classic

Candia McWilliam