This is the adventures a middle class Dublin Boy who suspects he has failed his leaving certificate exams (High School exams) and that he won’t get into University and will have to emigrate to California. He has one Summer before his results are out and he will have to face the music. Set in the early 70’s his mother is a mad republican catholic and his dad absent due to his acting career.
There are a lot of stories contained within such a small volume, most of them with the potential of being funny or maybe even sad. Unfortunately, there is no Character development, no descriptions and no way in hell I cared less about what happened to any of the characters in the book. Except for a general uneasiness that the author considers killing a cat is a funny story and that its funny when Nationalist assumes someone is evil if they are Anglican, I have no emotive response to this book.