The Pig Bin
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ISBN : 0953589528
Price: 6.99
The Pig Bin by Michael Richardson
Winner of the Sagittarius Prize 2001
This funny and touching novel is a must-read for anyone who ever went under the covers with Health and Efficiency.
'An offbeat, moving and hilarious novel' Independent
It is spring 1945 in Birmingham. Morley Charles is 13. He has a backwards name, a stammer which miraculously vanishes when he pretends to be French and he's just discovered the pleasures of his own body. But Morley's Catholic and needs the appropriate word so he can confess...
'Morley Charles, the just-into-long-trousers hero of Michael Richardson's first novel, is a charming, comic creation.' Time Out
'This accurately observed first novel looks at the angst of a young Catholic boy growing up in the Midlands at the close of the Second World War.' Express
'Intensely readable, authentically reminiscent, and mercifully free of Brummagem nostalgia cliches... Morley (has) a predilection for girlier school activities like reading and art... and seems to have missed the class on coolness.' What's On