Thomas Penman is enduring a very bad adolescence. Growing up in dark, dingy 1950s England, Thomas has problems. These include an unspeakable personal hygiene issue, an eccentric, ailing grandfather who speaks to him in Morse Code, an unrequited passion for the lovely Gwen Hackett, and an incriminatingly large stash of pornography. To cap it all, his warring parents are having him followed by a private investigator. It's hard to believe that things could get much worse for him, but, in fact, they are about to...
- ISBN10 0060955406
- ISBN13 9780060955403
- Publish Date 8 December 1999 (first published 7 May 1998)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harper Perennial
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 288
- Language English