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Sometimes I feel that I am destined always to be offstage whenever the main action occurs. '
Very funny, a compulsive and gripping read'
The Times '
Hugely entertaining'
The Observer '
A book to cherish, a book to reread, a book to buy for all your friends'
Independent on Sunday. . .
Whether it is first love or last rites, IRA bombs or industrial strife, prog versus punk rock, expectations of bad poetry or an unexpected life-changing experience involving lost swimming trunks, The Rotters'
Club is a heartfelt and hilarious portrait of a particular time and place featuring characters recognisable the world over . .'
Coming of age in 1970s'
Birmingham, teenager Benjamin Trotter is about to discover the agonies and ecstasies of growing up. .
That God has made me the victim of some cosmic practical joke, by assigning me little more than a walk-on part in my own life . '
Sometimes I feel that I am destined always to be offstage whenever the main action occurs
