A review by ohnoflora
Days of the Bagnold Summer by Joff Winterhart

5.0

Six weeks in the lives of a fifteen year old boy and his divorced mother. Short, seemingly slight, but so emotionally resonant I had to read it all in one go. If you want a depiction of teenager-hood in the UK in the mid-2000s, this is it. The acne, the bad hats, the ubiquitous black hoodie, the long, unwashed hair on all genders, the wrist cuffs, the terrible poetry, the eyeliner, the awful, awful self-consciousness (coupled, somehow, with awful, awful pretentiousness), the Misfits t-shirts, the lyrics written on school folders - it's all here and it is so funny and so unbearable.