'Held me rapt ... Edric's hyper-precise detailing of his working class Sheffield childhood and appalling father is utterly compelling and deserves many a prize' - Patrick Gale
'A brilliant portrait of growing up in 60s Sheffield ... [a] beautifully written, wonderful little book ... a powerful account ... The cover of this book describes it as a 'masterpiece'. You cannot argue with that' - Roger Alton, Daily Mail
'In astonishing detail, the novelist Robert Edric's boyhood in 1960s Sheffield - and his bullying father - burst off the page ... An absolute masterclass in how to set a scene' - Rachel Cooke, The Observer
'A painfully honest, almost Orwellian account of a struggling family expected to meet the every need of their demanding father, who never lets them forget that he deserved better in life' - Chris Nancollas, The Tablet
'The historical novelist Robert Edric deserves to be much better known ... terrific account ... brilliantly fixes in the mind a time and place that are now both utterly lost' - Sunday Times
'A rather remarkable - and remarkably un-depressing - memoir' - Clare Jenkins, On Magazine
Praise for Robert Edric
'The brilliant Yorkshire author Robert Edric has terrific range and versatility - memoir, historic fiction, detective stories; he does the lot, superbly' - Alan Johnson, The Times
'Edric's novels constitute one of the most astonishing bodies of work to appear from a single author for a generation' - Daily Telegraph
'Much contemporary fiction seems inconsequential and fleeting by comparison' - Guardian
'Edric is a novelist who makes his own rules and can't be compared with anyone else' - The Times
'This historical novelist's poignant look back at his 1960s childhood is a little gem ... summons up with great care a world that is now so unfamiliar that is feels like another planet ... a book that feels as rich and carefully observed as any one of Edric's historical novels ... should finally make Edric as celebrated as he so clearly deserves to be' - Andrew Holgate, Sunday Times
