A review by batrock
The Book of Right and Wrong by Matt Debenham

3.0

A mixed collection of short stories, The Book of Right and Wrong fares best when it's not trying dark twists in its tales or being excessively mean-spirited. Strange jabs at Back to the Future and stranger jabs at teenaged homosexuality in the eighties are only a couple of the things that prevented me from giving this book four stars, because Debenham is clearly a man who can go for power and profundity in the creation of a moment; it's perhaps not his fault that he more than occasionally falls into the traps all too common in the short story form.