( )Ī less-funny, South African version of Adrian Mole.
This sweet and funny novel will appeal to readers who enjoy stories about boarding school hijinks. Spud’s sensitive and often hilarious description of his personal experiences and those of the less favored of his roommates will surely win readers to his side.
He even wants to become a freedom fighter as apartheid breaks down. He makes the cricket team, he falls in love with two girls, he auditions for and wins a coveted part in the school play, and his drunken English teacher, the Guv, introduces him to great literature. There is not much of a plot but after a slow start you begin to root for Spud on his adventures in love, in cricket, in rugby, and in his academics.
Spud (so-called because “my willy is tiny and my balls haven’t dropped yet”) and his housemates are preoccupied with sports, sex, pranks, and tormenting each other but not necessarily in that order and Spud can’t help detailing all of them. This trying-to-come-of-age tale recounts the raucous, bawdy life of Spud, the boys in his dorm, his nutty family, and equally outrageous teachers. John “Spud” Milton keeps a diary in which he chronicles his first year at an elite all-boys boarding school in South Africa in 1990.
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