The Wrong Boy

By: Willy Russell

Language: English

Quality: Good

Genre: Novel, Horror

ISBN: 9780552996457

SKU: BE500027821267

Pages: 506

Description: "The Dewsbury Desperadoes are on their way to Pontefract for a gig at the Allied Butchers & Architects Club. The girl with the chestnut eyes is on her way to somewhere. And Raymond is heading for Gulag Grimsby. Raymond Marks is a normal boy, from a normal family, in a normal northern town. His dad left home after falling in love with a five-string banjo; his fun-hating grandma believes she should have married Jean-Paul Sartre- 'I could never read his books, but you could tell from his picture, there was nothing frivolous about John Paul Sartre.' Felonious Uncle Jason and appalling Aunty Paula are lusting after the satellite dish; frogs are flattened on Failsworth Boulevard; and Sickening Sonia's being sick in the majestic cathedral of words. Raymond Marks is a normal boy, from a normal family, in a normal northern town. Until, on the banks of the Rochdale Canal, the fly-trapping craze begins and, for Raymond and his Mam, nothing is ever quite so normal again. In Raymond, prize-winning and internationally acclaimed playwright Willy Russell has created an unforgettable character to rival his Shirley Valentine and educated Rita. The Wrong Boy is his extraordinary first novel.