Having heard Steven on R4 recently giving a spoken word workshop which was awesome and deciding we must have him in to school to work with our students, I was so disappointed with this. I struggled to feel involved with the characters, struggled with the tape recordings device to link 2 stories 20 years apart(and I AM a child of the 80s!)and just found it all rather boring. I guiltily skimmed the last 1/2 of the book and am now relieved to find (on Good Reads) that I am not the only one.

I was expecting the sort of cut-to-the-chase-prose Steven uses in his live work but it just wasn't there. The writing was too simple and unimaginative, the dialogue a little confusing and the ending a tad predictable.

What a shame.