- Published: 29 October 2020
- ISBN: 9780141028590
- Imprint: Penguin General UK
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 336
- RRP: $30.00
The Boy with the Topknot
A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies
- Published: 29 October 2020
- ISBN: 9780141028590
- Imprint: Penguin General UK
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 336
- RRP: $30.00
Could not be more enjoyable, engaging or moving
Observer
Fans of Nick Hornby and Jonathan Coe will love this book
Psychologies
Gripping, tender ... recalls A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Time Out
Told with enormous compassion and dry wit. The climax had me on the edge of my seat
Jonathan Coe
Funny, heartfelt
Marie Claire
Hugely enjoyable
New Statesman
Funny and revealing
Sunday Times
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
Intimate and funny
Metro
Moving
The London Paper
Moving
Sunday Times
Harrowing and impossible to put down
Evening Standard
The most moving debut we've read in ages
Elle
'Gripping and entertaining, horrifying and tender ... Exposes all those things we take for granted as we grow up
Hardeep Singh Kohli, The Times
I absolutely loved it. Heartbreaking and wonderful. He writes beautifully
Maggie O'Farrell
Could not be more enjoyable, engaging or moving
Observer
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
Hilarious, engaging, tragicomic
Meg Rosoff, Guardian
'Gripping and entertaining, horrifying and tender ... Exposes all those things we take for granted as we grow up
Hardeep Singh Kohli, The Times
Fans of Nick Hornby and Jonathan Coe will love this book
Psychologies
Gripping, tender ... recalls A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Time Out
Told with enormous compassion and dry wit. The climax had me on the edge of my seat
Jonathan Coe
Funny, heartfelt
Marie Claire
Hugely enjoyable
New Statesman
Funny and revealing
Sunday Times
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
Intimate and funny
Metro
Moving
The London Paper
Moving
Sunday Times
Harrowing and impossible to put down
Evening Standard
The most moving debut we've read in ages
Elle