House of Windows

LoveReading Says

Going up to Cambridge University can be a daunting experience for even the most confident of Freshers. For one thing, there’s having to face a whole new set of emotional and academic hurdles. For another, there’s having to get your head around all the eccentricities, like the conventions of Formal Hall, grasping what bops, bedders, squashes and p’lodges are, and accepting that May Week is actually in June. But for Nick, going up to read maths at the tender age of fifteen, the experience is heightened to the nth degree.

Socially awkward, and desperate for the approval of his inattentive, work-obsessed father, Nick immerses himself in his studies. But when prickly Professor Gosswin, his formidable tutor, and one of the novel’s most pivotal characters, suggests that he’d make an excellent rowing cox, Nick begins to realise that there might just be more to life than getting a First.

Driven by a cast of convincingly-drawn characters, and set against an atmospheric, affectionate evocation of Cambridge, this tenderly-told coming-of-age story gets to the heart of what it means to find your way in the world, and what it means to have friends and family.

~ Joanne Owen

Joanne Owen

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