Supposedly a Young Adult book. A coming of age story, about Clem Ackroyd, a working class grammar school boy living in Norfolk, who falls in love with the daughter of the local landowner. In parallel we follow his development as an artist/ illustrator, and the story of his parents/ grandparents is there as background.
Alongside this the Cuban missile crisis of 1963 threatens to end the world.
I'm still not entirely convinced about the ending, but I read the book at great speed, and never felt it was talking down to a YA audience.
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