A review by schopflin
Frankie and Stankie by Barbara Trapido

  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

I loved this book. It's clever, funny, informative and highly relatable despite its distance in time and location from me. The book is in the historic present throughout and in the earlier chapters has a 'child's eye' view, neither of which I like very much, but I enjoyed it here. Some may find the growing up story interweaved with politics a bit jarring but I feel it was appropriate. And Trapido never tries to pretend that she's writing from anything but a position of privilege. I much preferred it to Damon Algut's The Promise and that won the Booker... 
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