You’ll easily fall in love with the two broken boys at the heart of this story. Finlay’s and Banjo’s backstory is full of trauma and yearning in their journeys to turn their lives around after childhoods spent in care homes and foster families in the working-class suburbs of Glasgow, Scotland. This is a coming-of-age novel full of awkwardness, laughter and tears, that will hit you in the gut as you feel the full emotional force of the boys trying desperately to find themselves and their place in the world. The pacing and development of the characters is phenomenal considering this is a debut and I’m predicting well-deserved award recognition.

Roger, Little Unity