Tom Boler
A funny and stylishly original story about the inner-city world of ecstasy, sexual promiscuity and sexual confusion, class conflict and poverty — through the wide-open eyes of nine-year-old Tom: very innocent, but very eager to try it all.
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In this prequel to the cult novel, Boxy An Star, nine-year-old Tom Boler comes back from school one day to find his mother gone. What happens next is his story - told in his naive, trusting, baffled voice - as he negotiates a new, perilous, adult world. He is visited by Uncle Dustman, who collects rubbish bags and is obsessed with donkeys; he is adopted briefly by Primula Spatula, a posh dipsomaniac, and has a run-in with bad boys in the park before being retrieved by the mysterious Boxy, who works in the theatre and lives with Roxy. Tom becomes part of their strange family with all its secrets and quickly meets their friends - including the sinister Robert Tablet; the one with the bags of 'spangles' that make everything go peculiar. Tom's real adventures have begun.Daren King looks obliquely at the inner-city world of recreational drugs, sexual promiscuity and sexual confusion, class conflict and poverty - all through the wide-open eyes of nine-year-old Tom: very innocent, but very eager to try it all.
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