Book Count (since 1 January 2012)

Book Count (since 1 January 2014): 30

Sunday 10 April 2011

Skippy Dies by Paul Murray

I very much enjoyed this novel. Excellently written and fantastic characters. It is set in an English private boys school, which takes boarders and day pupils and which was traditionally run by monks. The relationship between the boys, their parents and the teachers is very well described and developed throughout the book. There are some big issues tackled in the novel but they are very delicately dealt without the reader feeling as if he is being driven towards a particular moral standpoint. It is very non-judgemental - more of a commentary of events rather than an analysis of them. The interaction between the main group of boys is excellently written and painfully believable. This book and The Room are my favourite of the 2010 Booker long list so far.

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